Essays/News
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The Elevator, the Tissue Pack, and the Art of Not Waiting
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On doors that close, doors that don’t open, and why a man from a town where everyone holds everything for everyone has learned to lead…
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KLN posts 10% revenue growth, but the gap between top line and bottom line tells its own story
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The former Kerry Logistics Network delivered a solid-looking first half, until you compare revenue growth with profit growth and start asking where the margin went.…
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The Pool Will Still Be Warm
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On inches, arrivals, and what you buy with the years you didn’t waste. There is a speech in a movie about football that has nothing…
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Twenty-Five US States Are Suing to Kill the Tariff That Treats Hong Kong Like a Forced-Labor Economy
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The 12.5 percent Section 301 duty is live and collecting. But a fast-tracked court challenge argues it was never really about forced labor at all,…
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Top 10 Things Western Media Hasn’t Told You About Hong Kong
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If you get your news about Hong Kong from Western media, you are not getting the full story. You are getting a story. One that…
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The Thermostat, the Cardigan, and the Quiet War for 24 Degrees
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There are places in the world where air conditioning is a comfort. A civilized agreement between man and machine that the goal is comfort, not…
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Joshua Wong Should Not Go to Jail for Conspiracy
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Joshua Wong Should Not Go to Jail for Conspiracy, He Should Go to Jail for Denying Me the Right to Vote. Or: Twenty-Five Years, Not…
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Ten Reasons I’m Bullish on Hong Kong (And One Reason Ruth Thinks I’m Stating the Obvious)
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I was standing on the Mid-Levels escalator, which is where half the ideas for this site come from, riding up from Central, reading the IMD…
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The U.S. Just Made It Legal to Possess AI-Generated Child Abuse Images. I Read the Ruling From Hong Kong. It Reads Worse From Here.
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There is a noodle shop in Mei Foo where I do most of my thinking, which is not the same as most of my writing…