投稿者: Lily Kuo in Beijing and Helen Davidson
Hardliners and allies of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, are remaking the semi-autonomous territoryA senior communist party operative whose only previous experience in Hong Kong is a business trip two years ago; a former Guangdong mayor who oversaw …
Chinese coastguard stopped a speedboat on Sunday suspected of an illegal border crossingMore than 10 Hong Kong residents, including an activist charged under the city’s punitive national security law, have been detained by China’s coastguard while tryi…
Huge demonstrations 17 years ago managed to block Beijing’s bill, but now China threatens a fresh clampdownOn 1 July 2003, in the middle of a sweltering Hong Kong summer, Mak Yin-Ting was among a crush of people trying to get into the tree-fringed Vict…
Details emerge of security laws Beijing wants to impose, overriding territory’s constitution and prompting threat of US retaliationChina’s proposal for imposing new national security laws on Hong Kong would force the territory to quickly enact legislat…