ESSAYS/NEWS
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A Response to Dr. Li: This Is Our Chance, Not Our Cautionary Tale
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I read Dr. Li’s first essay standing at the kitchen counter because I’d forgotten to sit down. That happens sometimes when something is good enough…
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You Already Made Up Your Mind About Hong Kong. Here’s How They Made Sure of It.
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It isn’t that Western coverage of Hong Kong lies. It’s that it figured out, a long time ago, that it doesn’t have to. I wrote…
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The Lions Are Roaring Again. What That Actually Means for HSBC.
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Everyone in Hong Kong has stroked the paw of a bronze lion for luck. Almost nobody asks why the lion is there, or what happened…
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Hong Kong’s Tariff Identity, Erased Twice: What the Sanctions Bill Adds to an Already Stacked Deck
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Hong Kong’s tariff identity Hong Kong importers spent February 2025 processing news that their goods would be taxed as if they came from Shenzhen. Eighteen…
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The Hong Kong Courtroom That Should Not Exist
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The news came on a Wednesday morning in September, which is when most things that matter in Hong Kong happen, on a weekday, while everyone…
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The Man Who Did Nothing
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Hong Kong is one of the richest cities on earth. The man most responsible for this got there by refusing to do his job. There…
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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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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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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…