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Anson Chan was the chief secretary of Hong Kong from 1993 to 2001 and a member of the Legislative Council from December 2007 to September 2008. She now leads Hong Kong 2020, a group formed in 2013 to facilitate public discussion on electoral reform in the city.
Pan-democrats hide their political moderation, their most valuable asset, from anti-government radicals and, in the end, make themselves irrelevant to both sides.
- Cheung Kim-hung says Lai was ‘desperate’ to launch English language Apple Daily as Beijing prepared to impose national security law on city in 2020
- He alleged Lai hoped the English version would ‘allow American readers to become the lever between Apple Daily and politics’
After 141 years of protecting Hong Kong from pirates and patrolling the border, the all-volunteer regiment was disbanded in 1995.
While the justice secretary has said that whether slogan-chanting is illegal will depend on the circumstances and be determined by the courts, many people are likely to think twice about speaking up, even if the criticism is constructive.
Grieving the loss of her daughter and with the national security law imminent, the ex-chief secretary and a prominent campaigner for political reform wants a ‘quieter life’.
Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Anson Chan and Albert Ho labelled as ‘new Gang of Four’ that ‘colludes’ with Western forces to instigate unrest.
Concerns must be voiced ‘before it is too late’, she tells the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, saying Hong Kong’s basic freedoms are progressively being whittled away.
While on US visit, Chan suggests that Hong Kong’s leaders need to go to Washington and elsewhere and say they, not Beijing, are in charge.
Charles Mok, Dennis Kwok and Chan were in Washington at the invitation of the Trump administration. A State Department report found that the ‘tempo of mainland intervention in Hong Kong affairs’ had increased.
Former No 2 official-turned-government critic Anson Chan and lawmakers Dennis Kwok and Charles Mok will embark on their 10-day trip next Tuesday.
Recently declassified British files show UK also tried to establish dialogue between city’s then chief secretary and Chinese government.
Some fought for the underprivileged or championed human rights, others were leaders in fields such as sport, business, charity – and all have left their mark on Hong Kong
Anson Chan’s criticisms of Hong Kong’s legal system while in the US took advantage of her audience’s ignorance and her host’s anti-Chinese sentiments, and impugned the reputation of our legal professionals.
City’s former No 2 official also urges international community to speak out for – and remind Beijing of – the ‘one country, two systems’ principle
