Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s Economy Is Struggling. Will It Crack in 2024?
Hong Kong’s economy enjoyed a cyclical rebound in 2023. But wounds from COVID-19 policies, external headwinds from decelerating Chinese growth, and high interest rates have spoiled the party. With on-and-off...
Can Hong Kong’s Economy Recover from Its Covid Slump?
Hong Kong was one of the last jurisdictions in the world to reopen after COVID-19 at the beginning of 2023. The ensuing economic recovery was short-lived and softer than expected....
Zero-Covid Sends Hong Kong’s Economy Into Freefall
Hong Kong’s economy declined precipitously during the third quarter of 2022, according to government estimates—marking the worst commercial period for the Chinese “special autonomous region” since the first months of...
Hong Kong Man Jailed for ‘Subversive’ Pro-Independence Song
A forty-three-year-old Hong Kong man was arrested after subtly protesting against the Chinese government during a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II of England, who died on September 8, at the...
Is the U.S. Too Weak to Roll Back China’s ‘Silk Curtain’?
From the Sea of Japan through the Taiwan Straits and down to the Straits of Malacca, a “Silk Curtain” has descended on the Indo-Pacific Rim. As the U.S.-China rivalry unfolds...
Crackdown Continues: Hong Kong Activist Denied Jury Trial
The national security trial of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong businessman and activist who published the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper until its closure in 2021, will be held without a...
Tech Giant Alibaba Seeks Primary Listing Status on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced on Tuesday that it sought primary listing status on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK), likely moving some of its trading away from the...
On Trial: Vanished Chinese Billionaire Surfaces in Court
Canada’s embassy in Beijing announced over the weekend that Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire who vanished from his hotel room in Hong Kong in 2017 after the Chinese government accused...
Xi Commemorates Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover to China
Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the territory’s handover to China—an anniversary that his government has celebrated as the beginning of...
Tiananmen Square Commemorations Move to Taiwan Amid Crackdown in Hong Kong
Following a crackdown on vigils commemorating the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square incident in Hong Kong, hundreds of Hongkongers traveled to Taiwan, the democratically-governed island regarded by Beijing as a...
Beijing Loyalist John Lee Picked as Hong Kong’s Next Leader
John Lee Ka-chiu, formerly Hong Kong’s highest-ranking law enforcement official and deputy leader of the “special administrative region,” was elected as Hong Kong’s next chief executive on Sunday by the...
Hong Kong’s Press Freedoms Crippled Following Beijing Crackdown
Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that examines press freedom around the world, moved Hong Kong to 148th place on its annual index of press freedom in 2022—a drop of...