China Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area plan: The prospects for integration June 5, 2019 0 Written by Alan Smart. Image Credit: Hong Kong from Shenzhen by leniners/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. The Greater Bay Area (GBA) plan is an ambitious strategy…
Asian tigers Hong Kong’s balancing act: Fiscal conservatism, northbound financial flows and poverty June 5, 2019 0 Written by Damian Tobin. Image Credit: Hong Kong – 3 Giants in the Fog by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Recent GDP data for Hong…
China Hong Kong: Neoliberal heaven or neoliberal nightmare? June 3, 2019 2 Written by Priscilla Roberts. Image Credit: Hong Kong 2 – Passerelle by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Neoliberal economists, notably Milton Friedman and Friedrich A.…
Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
China Xinjiang and Hong Kong: the periphery playbook October 26, 2018 1 Written by Alvin Cheung. Speaking at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 14 August 2018, shortly before his political party was banned, Hong Kong…
China UK-China relations: the Hong Kong conundrum August 9, 2018 0 Written by Tim Summers. One issue on the agenda during new British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt’s recent visit to China was Hong Kong. Amidst more…
China The 10 Best Chinese Language Movies of 2017 (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) March 2, 2018 0 Written by Panos Kotzathanasis. 2017 has been a very interesting year for the Chinese-speaking world (allow me not to dwell on the politics of the matter).…
China The national anthem dilemma: Contextualising political dissent of football fans in Hong Kong November 21, 2017 0 Written by Tobias Zuser. Over the last few months, international media have taken an unusual interest in both friendly and qualifying games of Hong Kong’s…
Film An interview with Betty Ho and Roger Lee November 19, 2017 0 Interviewed by Panos Kotzathanasis. On the occasion of Roger Lee’s collaborations with Ann Hui and the screening at the Five Flavours Film Festival, supported by HK…
Government Xi Jinping’s New Era and Hong Kong’s Declining Autonomy October 26, 2017 1 Written by Stephan Ortmann. During his 3 ½ hour speech at the beginning of the 19th Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping did not provide anything…
