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Fleeing Hong Kong Wasn’t Enough March 25, 2025

Finn Lau thought he had escaped China’s reach when he got to London. He’d come from Hong Kong, where Chinese authorities were rapidly consolidating control. An extensive protest movement had sprung up in response, which Lau was helping to lead. But h...

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U.S. & the Vatican Must Confront China on Human Rights March 13, 2025

The story of Jimmy Lai, a 77-year-old Hong Kong businessman turned human rights activist and convert to Catholicism, is unfolding at the intersection of politics and religion between China, the Vatican, and the US. Of profound significance for those ...

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BlackRock Buys Panama Ports in Victory for Trump March 04, 2025

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong-based conglomerate, agreed to sell control of a unit that operates ports near the Panama Canal after pressure from US President Donald Trump to limit Chinese interests in the region....

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Taiwan Mulls Stricter Citizenship Rules With Hong Kong & Macau March 03, 2025

Hong Kong’s Freedoms Are Hanging by a Thread November 21, 2024

Forty-five brave activists will spend up to a decade behind bars for challenging the CCP’s tyranny....

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Tycoon Jimmy Lai Denies Asking U.S. To Act Against Hong Kong November 20, 2024

Jailing of 45 Hong Kong Democrats in Landmark Trial Draws Criticism November 19, 2024

45 Pro-Democracy Activists Face Sentencing in Hong Kong November 18, 2024

Why Hong Kong’s Economic Future Looks Grim June 05, 2024

China’s takeover of Hong Kong has eroded transparency and the rule of law, opening up the city’s financial center to international money laundering and corruption. ...

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Hong Kong Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Law That Could Curb Dissent March 19, 2024

Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously passed a new national security law on Tuesday that grants the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown that was triggered by pro-democracy protests in 201...

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Abu Dhabi Fund Offers To Buy Out Investors Fleeing China Private Equity March 19, 2024

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is seeking to capitalise on western investors’ retreat from China by offering to buy at a discount their stakes in funds managed by Hong Kong-based PAG. The move from Abu Dhabi’s main sovereign wealth fund, describe...

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Hong Kong Jails 12 People Over The Storming Of The Legislature In 2019 March 18, 2024

A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city’s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city’s public broadcaster RTHK said....

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How China-US Rivalry Destroyed Hong Kong March 18, 2024

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From Protests to Prosecutions: A Tale of Modern Hong Kong March 15, 2024

The rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, now on trial for violating the National Security Law, mirrors the trajectory of Hong Kong itself: a population of hard-working entrepreneurial refugees creating a spectacularly successful economy under the largely beni...

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3 Hong Kong Activists Behind Tiananmen Vigil Lose Bid To Overturn Conviction March 14, 2024

From Protests to Prosecutions: Modern Hong Kong March 07, 2024

China’s slow strangulation of the fifty years of liberties it had promised to the Special Autonomous Region have been eroded by fits and starts while the democratic governments of the world look on but are painfully aware that they are powerless to a...

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Hong Kong’s Transnational Repression Threatens Human Rights in America January 26, 2024

Last month, two Washington, D.C., residents awoke to the news that an authoritarian government halfway across the world had slapped a bounty on their heads. Sadly, their experience is not unique. It represents an increasingly widespread phenomenon th...

Hong Kong a Cautionary Tale for Taiwan January 13, 2024

The Chinese territory, where critics say a crackdown on dissent after 2019 protests threatens cherished freedoms, has been cited by politicians and voters in Taiwan....

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