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Stephen Roach: The United States of Old Is Over
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Stephen Roach says the Hong Kong of old is over. After a federal judge in Worcester silenced a Hong Kong lawyer over a three-sentence press…
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America Promised Hong Kongers Refuge. ICE Didn’t Get the Memo.
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The United States promised Hong Kongers refuge through Deferred Enforced Departure. Then ICE detained Ho Yin Mo at a Las Vegas airport. Here is what…
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The Times Says He Was Arrested for Covering a Hong Kong Gathering. Read What the Police Actually Alleged.
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I read the New York Times over milk tea on Tuesday morning, which was my first mistake. “Hong Kong Journalist Arrested After Covering Gathering Linked…
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Taiwan Reunification at APEC 2026: Let Hong Kong Go First
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On September 9, a reporter from the People’s Daily asked the spokesman of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office about an associate professor in Changhua. Li Ci-ze,…
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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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Trump Banned Three Newsrooms. The Real Scandal Is What Took So Long.
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Last Friday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he was “proud” to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, calling their…
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Free for Five Days: The Wound That Never Closed: Taiwan, China, and the End of Strategic Ambiguity
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The Wound That Never Closed is free on Amazon for five days, beginning the afternoon of September 23.
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Hong Kong’s Listing Spree and the Loudest Silence in Finance
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Four companies filed to list in Hong Kong today. All four will begin trading on September 29. Between them, they are raising HK$14.4 billion, about…