Between March 28 and April 8, which includes the extended Easter weekend and Ching Ming Festival, a staggering 3.6 million Hong Kong residents went north via land control points, compared to about 860,000 mainland residents who visited Hong Kong. Other cities in the Greater Bay Area have become Hongkongers’ go-to playground in the same way … Read more
Yet the mainland and Hong Kong remain fundamentally different because of the “one country, two systems” principle, which President Xi Jinping pledged would continue past 2047 during his visit to Hong Kong in 2022. As Beijing reorients itself to deepen ties with and further open up to global businesses, Hong Kong must steer clear of … Read more
Should people be worried? Not unless one is predisposed to distrust and fear anything to do with China. In the past 20 years, the advance of technology and geopolitical competition has compelled many countries to update and enact new national security laws to counter new threats. What Hong Kong is doing is no different from … Read more
With the unprecedented third election victory of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and Beijing branding president-elect William Lai Ching-te an “obstinate Taiwan-independence worker”, two questions are being asked: Can peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait can be maintained? And is achieving unification by 2049, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of … Read more
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