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- Chris Patten and others were quick to criticise Hong Kong police for using tear gas on student protesters in 2014
- Where were these British politicians when French police used pepper spray on climate protesters?
Archives show aide to Margaret Thatcher was wary of Exco member and blamed him for near disasters in handover negotiations with China, but supporters say Chung bowed to neither London nor Beijing.
Officials repeatedly pressured Portugal not to grant rights to Macau residents to prevent Hongkongers from asking for similar treatment.
Having spent her whole life in the neighbourhood, Or Wai-wai knows every alley like the back of her hand and couldn’t live without the area’s famed wholesale fruit market.
Author and journalist Jonathan Fenby reflects on cheating death multiple times, his eventful editorship of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and how he accidentally ended up feeding the West’s appetite for China books
Shen Jian says the story of Hong Kong is not a story of humiliation, and it doesn’t start with the Treaty of Nanking – even if that’s what Beijing and its supporters want us to believe
Launch of handover anthology ‘Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place’ moved to FCC after Asia Society request that contributor Joshua Wong not speak at the event
Two decades after Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, the former shipping tycoon relives some watershed moments, from the handover to his time in the US and the year his company almost went bankrupt
The octogenarian actor known for his booming voice recalls the rain that washed away his master-of-ceremonies script for the handover, upstaging the emperor of Japan, and getting ‘rubbed up’ on set by Katharine Hepburn
Penultimate colonial governor David Wilson remembers meeting Xi Jinping’s ‘extremely interesting’ father, drafting the Sino-British Joint Declaration and his confidence that China will keep its promises.
