SO FAR SO GOOD …

Jun 24, 2014 | Letters from Hong Kong

Posted:  June 24, 2014             … thanks to the last minute “White Paper” boost that summarily dismissed all of Hong Kong’s electoral reform proposals in deference to Beijing’s mandate (June 12 post).  Organizers of the Occupy Central civil disobedience...

A MANIFESTO FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN

Jun 12, 2014 | Letters from Hong Kong

Posted:  June 12, 2014   Beijing has just issued an unprecedented comprehensive reiteration of its “one-country, two-systems” governing design for Hong Kong.  The message is the same as always … repeated at every official opportunity since being enshrined in Hong...

THE RIGHT TO REMEMBER THE PAST

Jun 6, 2014 | Letters from Hong Kong

Posted:  June 6, 2014   Local pro-democracy partisans may be conflicted about how to introduce universal suffrage elections here but there is one thing about which, it’s safe to say, there is general agreement.  Even pro-Beijing loyalists can muster no arguments...