There’s been a major upheaval happening for the last three months halfway around the world; yet the Western press has only covered it in fits and starts. If you’re a regular reader here, you probably know the basics of the Umbrella Revolution; we’ve covered both the protests in July and the beginning of the current […]
Back in July, we wrote a piece about the democracy movement in Hong Kong. The piece was published the day after 500,000 people took to the streets for reasons that should sound familiar to us all; in many ways, it sounds just like here in the U.S. Hong Kong has historically had more freedom and […]
On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong ended 156 years of British colonial rule, and became the first Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1985; “The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs which, are the responsibilities […]