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Beijing unveils the next officials to govern Hong Kong
John Lee released on Sunday his cabinet picks to help him lead Hong Kong, including four pro-Beijing lawmakers and four officials sanctioned by the United States.
Editor’s Note for Monday, June 6, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
June 4 in Hong Kong: A suppressed city fights for its memory of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown
For the third year in a row, memorials for those who died on and near Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 were absent in Hong Kong. But local artists and students found their own ways to commemorate the event despite threats from the authorities.
The future of activism in Hong Kong — Q&A with Jeffrey Ngo
As a new leader takes control of Hong Kong, the activist and historian Jeffrey Ngo takes stock of the recent crackdowns on civil society, Hong Kong’s history of peaceful protest, and shares his thoughts on why the Tibetan exile movement may be a model for Hong Kongers’ future.
Hong Kong names ex-cop John Lee as its new leader
Under Hong Kong’s controversial new election process, John Lee has won the single-candidate election to become the city’s top leader. Lee received 1,416 of the 1,424 votes cast by a pro-Beijing election committee that has been chosen to represent Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people.
Should global investors own Chinese assets? Q&A with Sofia Horta e Costa
Sofia Horta e Costa covers stocks, rates, foreign exchange, credit, and macro for Bloomberg in Hong Kong. She also runs ultramarathons. We talked to her about how investors and bankers in Hong Kong see China in the age of COVID lockdowns and Beijing’s ongoing crackdowns on the private sector.
Former top cop to be next leader of Hong Kong?
John Lee, a former law enforcement official and a favored candidate to win, has announced his currently unopposed bid to be Hong Kong’s next leader.
China isn’t pivoting from COVID zero yet
Despite adjustments to its pandemic playbook, China is sticking to its dynamic COVID-zero approach.
Editor’s Note for Monday, March 14, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Chinese stocks in Hong Kong tank, and a closer look at what Chinese people really think about Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, March 2, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Hong Kong intensifies COVID control measures amid Omicron wave, pushing residents to the brink
To deal with its worst surge of COVID yet, Hong Kong will test its entire 7.4 million population three times in March, in addition to delaying an election and turning schools into health facilities. Some residents are in desperate situations, and some are choosing to flee the city.
The U.K.’s BNO scheme, one year later
A year into its inception, a visa program introduced by the U.K. has opened a path to work and citizenship for millions of Hongkongers. But much work remains to make the scheme more inclusive and resettlements easier.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, February 16, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Hong Kong is more and more a part of China, except when it comes to the city’s outbreak of COVID-19.
Hong Kong vs. COVID
Hong Kong’s fifth COVID wave is threatening to overload the city’s emergency resources. But some worry that methods to temper the outbreak provide an opportunity for Beijing to increase its control over the city.
Omicron triggers mass flight cancellations into China and Hong Kong
Trying to travel to China or Hong Kong in the next month? Expect delays. China has canceled over 140 incoming international flights in the past week due to COVID-19, while Hong Kong has barred all flights from eight countries.
Editor’s note for Friday, January 7, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Signals of economic doom and gloom from property developers Shimao and Kaisa; Walmart get rapped for alleged cybersecurity violations, days after being scolded for allegedly removing goods from Xinjiang from its Sam’s Club shelves; all 170 guests of a birthday party in Hong Kong, including 13 senior officials, were ordered into quarantine due to COVID-19.
Editor’s note for Monday, January 3, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam masters the language of Beijing as she defends the closing of Stand News.
Citizen News becomes latest Hong Kong news site to close down
In less than a year, three independent media outlets in Hong Kong — Apple Daily, Stand News, and now Citizen News — have closed due to increased pressure from authorities enforcing the National Security Law.
The China Project 2022 Red Paper
We all read the headlines, but what really happened in China in 2021? And what’s on deck for 2022? This is our annual guide to the China issues we all need to know about.
Hong Kong and Taiwan both vote, in very different ways, with very different results
Voters in Hong Kong and Taiwan went to the polls over the weekend, but the circumstances couldn’t be more different. Beijing released a white paper that talked glowingly about “universal suffrage” as the goal in Hong Kong, but included caveats that make clear it does not see the natural progression of democracy in the city as being anything like Taiwan’s experience.
