The Foreign Office has taught fewer than five civil servants to speak Cantonese
The department has been accused of undermining its ability to challenge China by training so few to speak its primary…
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Xi Jinping’s parallel reality in Hong Kong
In a visit to mark 25 years since the handover from British rule, the Chinese leader insists Hong Kong has…
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From the NS archive: Enter the dragon
27 June 1997: With the handover of Hong Kong, China’s relationship with the former colonial fiefdom will be the most…
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“You have to say when things are wicked”: Chris Patten’s lessons from negotiating with China
Hong Kong's last British governor on hopes betrayed, the risk of repeating mistakes and his view of Boris Johnson.
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The betrayal of Hong Kong
Twenty-five years since the city passed from British to Chinese rule, its once-vibrant civil society has been crushed.
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Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s…
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Hong Kong’s authoritarian future is already here
The selection of the former security chief John Lee as the city’s leader signals its repressive new reality.
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Hong Kong’s deadly Covid surge
Morgues are filling up and the city is reportedly running out of coffins as Hong Kong's hospitals are overwhelmed.
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