The West has abandoned Hong Kong to totalitarianism
With the conviction of Jimmy Lai, can Britain offer the city anything more than moral lectures and second passports?
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Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong show trial shames Britain
China has shattered its treaty commitments to the UK over Hong Kong
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Chinese agents are hunting dissidents across Britain
Beijing is using its espionage network to track those who rebelled against it in Hong Kong
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A cruise ship for Ukrainians exposes a hierarchy of refugees
Why has the UK spent up to £100m on cruise ships for those fleeing the Russian invasion, when others in…
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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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Hong Kong faces its pandemic peak
A zero-Covid policy and low vaccination rates have left the population vulnerable.
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Welcoming Hong Kongers will help reset the UK’s approach to immigration
The government’s openness to Hong Kong nationals shows that controlling immigration need not always mean less immigration.
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Why Hong Kong is culling its hamsters – and how citizens are fighting back
The resistance to Beijing’s zero-Covid policy shows Hong Kong’s civil society has not been totally crushed.
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The UK must abandon “democratic defeatism” if it’s to stand up to China
Beijing’s selective application of international rules is changing the world for the worse.
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The long shadow of the Chinese Communist Party
Even in London, supporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement don’t feel safe.
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Nathan Law: From Poland to the UK, “freedom is under threat”
The pro-democracy activist and author warns that the authoritarian crackdown taking place in Hong Kong can happen anywhere.
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Hong Kong democracy after one year of the National Security Law
Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC host the New Statesman‘s weekly global affairs podcast, World Review.
Hong Kong’s sanctions gridlock
Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Jessie Lau on the World Review podcast.