Tag: hong kong

• In Hong Kong, Foreign Tourists Are Replaced by a Local Variety

  March 7, 2021

  HONG KONG — Of all the problems created by the pandemic, Sisi Wong did not expect that finding parking would be one of them. Travel to Hong Kong was cut… more ›

• Hong Kong police use national security law to block protest-related website

  January 12, 2021

  Sources said the force had started asking internet service providers (ISPs) to halt access to the HKChronicles website citing Article 43 of the law and its implementation rules. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3117072/hong-kong-police-use-national-security-law-block more ›

• Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes

  August 1, 2020

  When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. A video frame captured in Hong Kong in August 2019 shows a group… more ›

• How the super-rich spent lockdown

  May 15, 2020

  As the UK headed for lockdown, reports flew in of wealthy homeowners rushing to the countryside, to their yachts or to private jets out of the country. But where were… more ›

• China’s Global Threat to Human Rights

  January 15, 2020

  An extraordinary threat requires a commensurate response—and much still can be done to defend human rights worldwide from Beijing’s frontal attack. Despite the Chinese government’s power and hostility to human… more ›

• What do we call Hong Kong’s nameless “2019 protests” in 2020?

  December 28, 2019

  It was Confucius who extolled the “rectification of names.” “If names be not correct,” he said, “language is not in accordance with the truth of things. https://qz.com/1772558/what-do-we-call-hong-kongs-2019-protests-in-2020/ more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Would-Be Chinese Defector Details Covert Campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan

  November 23, 2019

  The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn’t be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/defector-spy-taiwan-hong-kong.html more ›

• China’s messaging against the Hong Kong protests has found a new outlet: PornHub

  November 14, 2019

  As Twitter, Facebook and YouTube shut down accounts spreading China’s narrative about the Hong Kong protests, resourceful patriots are putting their videos on another extremely popular platform: the world’s biggest… more ›

• Photos: Hong Kong police and students are fighting a war in one of the city’s top universities

  November 13, 2019

  One of Hong Kong’s foremost universities turned into a site of fiery pitched battles as police stormed onto campus, firing tear gas and rubber bullets as protesters responded with bricks… more ›