ESSAYS/NEWS
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Stephen Roach Calls Hong Kong Just Another Chinese City. APEC’s Finance Ministers Are About to Test That.
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On August 2, Stephen Roach published a short list. The former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia had argued in July that “the Hong Kong of…
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A Hong Kong Expat’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Singapore
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I bought a pack of chewing gum at the 7-Eleven in Mei Foo on Saturday night, and nobody asked to see a doctor’s note. This…
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Joshua Wong Didn’t Just Cost Hong Kong a Vote. He Cost Obama His China Legacy.
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Twelve years ago this weekend, a seventeen-year-old in glasses climbed the fence around Civic Square outside the government headquarters in Admiralty. Joshua Wong was dragged…
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Hong Kong Needs a Warrant to Search Your Phone. The US Doesn’t.
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The alert showed up on my phone the way these things always do in Hong Kong, forwarded into three different group chats within an hour,…
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Adams, Massachusetts, Should Build a Trump Statue. Hear Me Out.
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There is a bronze man in the middle of my hometown with his left arm stuck out, and it is easy to assume he is…
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Hong Kong’s Hydrogen Bet Just Got Nine Signatures. The Regulator Isn’t One of Them.
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Nine companies signed a hydrogen ecosystem MOU in Hong Kong on May 18, but the officials who witnessed it, including the department that will eventually…
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Cetus Maritime Wants 13 More Ships and an IPO: Hong Kong Dry Bulk Is Running Out of Independents to Consolidate
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Cetus Maritime is in talks to absorb 13 vessels from Hong Kong-listed Seacon Shipping ahead of its own overseas listing. It would be the fourth…
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Waffle House vs Cha Chaan Teng: Why Hong Kong’s Greasy Diners and America’s 24-Hour Grill Are the Same Restaurant
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I took Ruth to a Waffle House once, on a trip to Florida, at roughly two in the morning, because I wanted her to understand…
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The Night We All Agree to Look at the Same Thing
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Ruth handed me a mooncake tonight the way other people hand you a grenade with the pin already pulled, carefully, with both hands, and a…