Essays/News
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The Cardboard Grannies of Hong Kong
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In a city obsessed with efficiency, they are the most efficient of all. Hong Kong will sell you a story about itself. The skyline. The…
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The Same Mistake, Thirty Years Later
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On the gutting of the American middle class, the absence of worker protections, and why the logistics industry is repeating history and making the same…
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Hong Kong Judge Who Keeps Ruling Against Government Promoted to Appeals Court in Latest Blow to Judicial Independence
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In what Western observers are calling yet another alarming sign of Beijing’s tightening grip on Hong Kong’s judiciary, the city announced Friday the promotion of…
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Cathay Cargo doubles down on freighter orders, but the market underneath is shifting fast
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Cathay Cargo’s decision to expand its Airbus A350F freighter order to eight firm aircraft, announced in late May, was dressed up as a vote of…
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Adams Had Textiles. Hong Kong Had Everything Else.
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There is a man in Kwai Chung whose hands are the color of diesel and whose truck has 187,000 kilometers on it and whose opinion…
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Hong Kong Was a 15-Minute City Before the Rest of the World Knew What to Call It
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In 2015, a Franco-Colombian professor named Carlos Moreno proposed a radical idea at the COP21 climate conference in Paris: what if you could access everything…
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Common Sense for Hong Kong and Taiwan
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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor.” — Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 Two hundred and…
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The King of Fruits
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On durian, marriage, and the things you learn to live with when you love someone whose nose works differently than yours. My wife loves durian,…
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The Bridge: Hong Kong and the Art of the Long Weekend
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Every January, seven million people sit down and perform the same calculation. It is not about money. It’s about the art of the Long Weekend.…