On August 23, a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman shouted “Hong Kong is part of China and its affairs are China’s internal affairs. We will not allow the U.S.…
Category: Hong Kong
A recurring them one comes across reading about British thinking about Hong Kong is how vulnerable they felt. In World War II, for instance, the British and Commonwealth forces collapsed…
I went out to protest after the mask ban was announced on Friday and walked from Central to Causeway Bay with a scholar of social movements who was in Hong…
I’m inclined to view the mask ban as a high risk/high reward gamble by Beijing. I say Beijing instead of Lam because I don’t think she’s calling important shots like…
Whether one is reading Charles Tilly or Erica Chenoweth, the literature on social movements and resistance campaigns usually begin with a recognition that the state is not monolithic. Personally, I…
There is something remarkable and strange in the interviews with our Chief Executive-elect. Discerning the meaning of the contours of these peculiarities tells us something about the current political reality…