Breaking | Defence magazine publisher Andrei Chang quits Hong Kong over concerns for safety
Mainland born Canadian founder of Kanwa Asian Defence magazine is relocating to Tokyo following disappearances of Hong Kong booksellers
Andrei Chang, the founder of the influential military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence, is leaving Hong Kong because he fears his safety as a journalist and publisher can no longer be guaranteed in the city.
He said he made the decision after the disappearance last year of five Hong Kong booksellers who had sold works critical of Chinese authorities and later resurfaced on the mainland. Two of them hold European Union citizenship.
Chang was born in Yunnan province, but is a permanent Hong Kong resident and also holds a Canadian passport.
“My wife and I decided in January to gradually move our home and office to Tokyo when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the missing Hong Kong bookseller Lee Po as ‘first and foremost a Chinese citizen’,” Chang said.
Wang had made the remark to visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who had said Lee was a British passport holder.