China One country, two identities: The divergence of national identities in Hong Kong February 5, 2020 0 Image credit: Umbrella Revolution by Studio Incendo/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Shui-yin Sharon Yam. Ever since Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong…
China A clash or reconciliation of nationalisms across the Taiwan Strait? February 4, 2020 0 Image credit: 龜山島＋國旗 by Vincent Chien/Flickr; licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Zhidong Hao. Between 2002 and 2003, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan…
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 ‘Catch Hong Kong as we fall’ September 5, 2019 0 *Articles published by The Asia Dialogue represent the views of the author(s) and not necessarily those of The Asia Dialogue or affiliated institutions. Image credit:…
China Exploring the complex China-Taiwan relationship January 25, 2019 0 Written by Daouda Cissé. In November 2015, the meeting between Ma Ying-Jeou - then president of Taiwan and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - and…
China Xi Jinping’s Message to Compatriots in Taiwan Signals Change in Taiwan Policy January 24, 2019 0 Written by Elizabeth Freund Larus. Xi Jinping’s January 2ndMessage to Compatriots in Taiwan, in which China’s leader called for unification under a “one country, two…
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…
Politics Contesting Visions of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law May 31, 2017 0 Written by M Y Karen Lee. The last British governor, Chris Patten, when praising the 'Hong Kong way of life', averred: 'It is the Rule…
Politics Autonomy in Hong Kong: what ‘autonomy’ means in practice May 30, 2017 1 Written by Damien Kingsbury. Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ is sometimes referred to as constituting Hong Kong’s autonomy from China. This is, in principle,…
Politics Hong Kong Democracy: Beijing’s policy towards the pro-democracy camp May 29, 2017 0 Written by Joseph Y. S. Cheng. In the initial years after Hong Kong’s return to the Motherland in 1997, the Chinese authorities attempted to show…
