Author Archives: biglychee

We don’t hear much about the Legislative Council these days. Although there are 90 of them, the all-patriots members are mostly low-profile. There’s the one who drove her car the wrong way down a street. And another who did something … Continue reading →

From Flying Chopstick on Substack, a long, academic-type piece, partly critiquing a starry-eyed guy called Perez who thinks China has invented a space-age new form of governance, but mainly examining how Hong Kong fits into China’s system of government, with … Continue reading →

HKFP reports criticism of the Hong Kong government’s clampdown on bookstores from a slightly unexpected source: a small conservative Christian group known mainly for its anti-gay views… The Society for Truth and Light’s secretary general Choi Chi-sum said in a … Continue reading →

The Economist tries to explain Hong Kong’s obsession with shutting down small bookstores… Evidently the officers in charge of the raid had not expected such a big haul, or they would have brought more bins. The last of it had … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s on-line Standard carried an op-ed (or ‘news’ story) warning that overseas exchange and training opportunities, including the Fulbright and Chevening scholarships, are being used to groom agents for evil foreign forces… …Some political figures have bluntly stated that such … Continue reading →

Stephen Roach, former boss of Morgan Stanley Asia, writes a piece updating and defending his belief that ‘Hong Kong is over’… This dramatic transformation into Xianggang is the real story. Hong Kong’s defenders are in denial about this new chameleon-like … Continue reading →

Lingua Sinica on how Hong Kong is emulating Mainland-style merging of NatSec police and media… Episodes two and three [of NS Files: Decoded] touch on the publication and distribution of the allegedly seditious children’s book Sheep Village, and the prosecution … Continue reading →

After his fifth case of plagiarism – and several reprimands – High Court Judge William Chan ‘takes early retirement’. HKFP reports… In the latest instance of plagiarism, Chan was found to have copied large parts of the defence’s opening and … Continue reading →

HK Labour Rights Monitor looks at how former members of the Hong Kong Police are moving into senior positions elsewhere in the public sector… Since taking office, [ex-cop CE John] Lee has appointed at least seven former senior police officers … Continue reading →

The SCMP reports on the HK Tourism Bored Board’s new exciting promotional campaign. Because apparently we don’t have enough tourists yet… Hong Kong is seeking to promote itself as a city that visitors “feel” rather than merely see under a … Continue reading →