The issue of foreign judges sitting on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal was raised again recently, when a former president of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, said: ‘There’s going to come a stage …
The Chinese government’s online censorship regime isn’t new. It succeeded in ‘nail[ing] jello to a wall’, to use the words of former US president Bill Clinton, when the world thought the Chinese Communist Party wouldn’t …
Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong during the 25th anniversary of its handing back to China helped confirm that Beijing is committed to fully subjugating the former British colony. In his speech, Xi distorted the …
If norms exist in the Chinese Communist Party, perhaps Xi Jinping, the general secretary and de facto president of the People’s Republic of China, has established one by attending the inauguration of incoming chief executives. …
A year after Beijing imposed its national security law on Hong Kong, many residents are leaving the city or are contemplating departing. Since 2020, close to 90,000 people, or 1.2% of the population, have gone. …