Hong Kong politics

Carrie Lam leaves behind a new Hong Kong: less free, less capable, and more dependent on the mainland.

Lam’s replacement was a key demand of the 2019 protests, but no one should be celebrating her announced retirement now.

Lam has been Hong Kong’s top leader during a rocky stretch, from the 2019 Umbrella Movement through the enactment of a controversial national security law.

Sunday’s Legislative Council polls are a test of the resistance of pro-democracy Hong Kongers.

Hong Kong officially enacted the electoral changes suggested by Beijing back in March.

Despite the rocky road ahead, Hong Kong’s opposition politicians must not give up on the political arena.

Analyzing the regime preferences of people in mainland China and Hong Kong during the pandemic.

A quick look at the diverse factions involved in the 2020 primary elections belies Beijing's claim that there was a unified conspiracy toward subversion.

Parsing the motivations, and implications, of Beijing's plan to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral and legislative structures.

The changes, billed as necessary “improvements,” will make it effectively impossible for pro-democrats to win office.

The events of the last week spell the end of any formal political opposition in Hong Kong.