Watch your words. What you say often comes back to haunt to you. Smart politicians run their words through the brain before they come out of the mouth. Dumb politicians use their mouths more than their...

If Dr Li Wenliang could speak from his grave, this is likely what he will say: “Don’t cry for me. Use my death for a higher purpose.” Li will forever be eulogized as the hero who...

Can a virus that is invisible to the naked eye do what millions of Hong Kong people could not? A million people marched peacefully. Then two million. They got nowhere. Months of violent protests followed. But...

By now, everyone in Hong Kong and Taiwan knows about a tale of two elections. It’s a true story about freedom. If only people in mainland China could read it too. It would teach them the meaning...

One man’s nightmare can be another man’s awakening, just like one man’s rioter can be another man’s freedom fighter. Now that we’ve said goodbye to 2019, one thing is clear – it was the year Hong...

Modern history has its share of courageous leaders. Gandhi springs to mind. So does Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. But Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor a courageous leader? The very thought of it insults most Hongkongers....

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. The late American president John Kennedy said this at his 1961 inaugural speech. Now, almost 60 years later, we...

Do the idealistic young people who fought to defend their university campuses from being stormed by the police have a stake in society? Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is on the record as saying young protesters don’t...

Whether David really defeated Goliath with a single stone from a slingshot depends on how much you believe in this ancient biblical tale. True or not, the story has come to epitomize underdogs overcoming more powerful...

By now, our leaders should know violence won’t end just because they demand it. They have lost all legitimacy, which makes their words meaningless. But they keep on condemning violence as if that alone would stop...

A reporter once asked our chief executive if she could sleep at night after causing Hong Kong’s worst-ever political crisis with her extradition bill. She didn’t answer. I wonder if she had a restful night last...

It is safe to assume that no sane person would kick a yellow object for no reason in a dark alley. I can, of course, imagine a group of drunken people kicking a yellow object for...

A new normal has descended on Hong Kong. Get used to it. If you think this new normal is just a passing nightmare about a free society morphing into an authoritarian one, please wake up. It’s...

Let’s put aside for a moment the five demands of anti-extradition protesters. Our chief executive has already implied she is powerless to meet the demands. That power lies with Beijing, which has explicitly said through spokesmen...

Over the past few days numerous images have defined the political dark age we are now in. The most shocking were the bloodied face of a female protester with a ruptured eye, apparently from a police...

Hong Kong was thick with rumors last Sunday when the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office announced it would hold an unprecedented media conference in Beijing the following day to state its position on...

Most people dread the thought of having a gay or lesbian in their family. They care more about possible shame to the family than the well-being of the LGBT family member. I have a large extended...

What’s Beijing to do? Hong Kong people have found a way to slip through its tightening grip. They’re now doing it week after week with increasing defiance at a place and time of their choosing for...

Two years ago, on July 1, 2017, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor strode on stage to be sworn in as the city’s new chief executive by President Xi Jinping who was in Hong Kong to mark the...

On Sunday morning, just hours before a mass protest, Beijing’s liaison office summoned its Hong Kong allies to a closed-door meeting at its headquarters in Western district. Top officials at the liaison office had a clear...