Opinion
Comment and analysis from Hong Kong Free Press
Censorship in Hong Kong since the 2014 Umbrella Movement: an overview and tally
Time is running out for Hong Kong’s unique East-West culture and special freedoms
Is Canada going to pot… or is Hong Kong overlooking the merits of a harmless plant?
Why I will no longer write for the South China Morning Post
Frederick Fung in Kowloon West: Spoiler candidate or one last campaign for an old-time democrat?
A 30-year plan to enrich 80-year-old building tycoons? Are they going to live forever?
Set in Hong Kong, ITV’s ‘Strangers’ has too many simplified characters – in both senses of the word
Chinese state media’s intense ‘mind map’ on Xi Jinping’s ideology may be lacking some detail
What do we really know about the death of Zheng Xiaosong, China’s top man in Macau?
Trump & Xi’s trade war has China’s planners scrambling to solve old problems
Why democrat Lau Siu-lai had a right to respond before Hong Kong banned her from election
How Beijing is using the Nazi propaganda playbook to justify its concentration camps to the world
Why detained dissidents in China ‘confess’ – and why you would too
Why it was wrong of a Cambridge college to award Carrie Lam an honorary fellowship
Matthew Torne’s ‘Last Exit to Kai Tak’ captures the underlying betrayal of Hong Kong by its political system
Hong Kong’s election bans: How Beijing’s shifting definition of ‘separatism’ snared another victim
How to feel pride in a nation committing cultural genocide against its minorities?
Welcome to Insanity Reef: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam creates her own Frankenstein’s monster
Promoting Putonghua in schools is not about giving Hong Kong an ‘edge,’ it is political
The Best Human Rights Books, July to September 2018
Locating the red line: the slow, painful retreat of free expression in Hong Kong
Why born-again authoritarian Carrie Lam will be celebrating the expulsion of a journalist… and the backlash
Why I am pro-China
Chinese media mum on Victor Mallet visa denial case
Like clockwork, Chinese tabloid Global Times hits out against ousted British journalist
Journalist’s visa denial marks a clear line in the sand – Hong Kong has fundamentally changed
We beat the tobacco barons; now its time to take on the purveyors of plastic
What Hong Kong’s expulsion of a foreign journalist tells us about leader Carrie Lam’s woes
Mangkhut brought another climate change warning, but Hong Kong officials are still promoting pollution
Hong Kong’s wealth gap is a much greater threat to its security than separatists
Hong Kong’s Express Rail Link: Totting up the cost of our new toy
Teachers, hold your tongues: student informants in the Chinese classroom
Banning political parties? Hong Kong’s first big venture into authoritarianism charts a stunningly familiar path
Many are called but few are chosen: Ronny Tong, Yau Wai-ching, and The New York Times
On full public display at the Kavanaugh hearing – the diminishment and abuse of women by people in power
On the fourth anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, a way forward for Hong Kong’s freedom struggle
How one golfer walked away from a prison sentence for assaulting land activist
Coming soon to a Hong Kong near you: creeping authoritarianism mainland style
China’s lack of ‘supervision by public opinion’: What happens when press control is too effective?
Express Rail Link: handy for trips to places without airports, slow and dear to anywhere else
What Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam should have done in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Mangkhut
Jasper Tsang’s proposal to formalise the role of the Liaison Office is unnecessary and provocative
Clean out your wardrobes: Hong Kong Occupy activist convicted partly on the evidence of his shirt
What to say when you’re a Chinese Communist Party official
Hello sailor! In Hong Kong’s housing shortage, floating homes are worth considering
How can Hong Kong satirists compete with our hilarious local leaders?
Fallout and damage control: Independence activist Andy Chan and Hong Kong’s free speech row
Representation in Crazy Rich Asians: It may not be perfect… but it’s an awesome start
Freedom of speech is not absolute, but there are clear boundaries to the permitted exceptions
Crazy Rich Asians: Hollywood and the Communist Party share a simplistic idea of what it means to be Chinese
The court of Xinhua: Do not dare claim the truth for yourself; it is the Party’s through and through
Press for freedom? So much for Hong Kong media’s united response against China’s tyranny
The outrageous nonsense spouted in response to Andy Chan’s independence speech
China will pay price for banning of Hong Kong’s pro-independence party
Redefining everything: Press Club row offers a glimpse of freedom of speech with Chinese characteristics
9 hot tips on how to act like a domestic worker’s employer, not a slave-owner
What is CY Leung up to? Hong Kong hasn’t had its Ten Years yet
