China Mounting challenges for Xi October 31, 2019 0 Image Credit: Xi Jinping – London Book Fair 2018 by ActuaLitté/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Zhiqun Zhu. After the 1 October 2019 extravaganza…
China The Water Movement represents the best of times for Hong Kong September 27, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by doctorho/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Wilson Wong. One of the most famous quotes by the English author Charles Dickens is: ‘It…
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.…
China Trump’s Unlikely Ally: The Chinese Dissident January 4, 2017 1 Written by Edward White. This March, Donald J. Trump, then standing to become the Republican presidential nominee, drew the ire of three prominent Chinese dissidents…
One Country Two Systems You Must Have One Country Before You Have One Country, Two Systems December 5, 2014 4 Written by Don Rodgers. The People’s Republic of China officially views Taiwan as a “sacred and inseparable part of China’s territory.” Yet, Taiwan is currently…
Hong Kong Hong Kong, Taiwan and the End of the “One Country, Two Systems” Dream December 4, 2014 0 Written by Alex Calvo. The ideological foundations of China's 1911 Revolution and previous attempts to overthrow the Qing rested, among other things, on three pillars:…
Hong Kong Occupy Central and the marginalization of pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong December 3, 2014 0 Written by Ng Hoi Yu. The Occupy Central Movement (OCM), also known as the Umbrella Revolution, broke out in Hong Kong on 28 September. It was…
Hong Kong The Mixing of Well and River Water: Hong Kong under the “One Country, Two Systems” December 2, 2014 0 Written by Jennifer Eagleton. The concept of “One Country, Two Systems” (一國兩制) was originally devised with Taiwan in mind and was subsequently repurposed for Hong…
