Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Philip Yeung
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Philip Yeung

The FCC has behaved like a rude guest, but Hong Kong didn’t need to evict journalist Victor Mallet

Philip Yeung says the Foreign Correspondents’ Club provoked Hong Kong and China when it gave a separatist a public platform. In testing the limits of free speech, the club has contributed to its curtailment, but now is the time for quiet diplomacy to prevail

Philip Yeung
Philip Yeung

Updated: 7:10pm, 8 Oct, 2018

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Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Separatist Andy Chan Ho-tin shakes hands with journalist Victor Mallet before his talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club on August 14. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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Philip Yeung

Philip Yeung

Philip Yeung is a former speech-writer to the president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and currently a freelance speech-writer and ghostwriter to local civic and government leaders. He is a guest lecturer at various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and mainland China on public speaking and academic writing. He was educated at the University of Toronto.