Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s announcement on Saturday suspending controversial extradition legislation after a secret meeting with a top Chinese official wasn’t enough to pacify an angry population. Demonstrators returned to the streets on Sunday...

Thirty years ago this month, the world witnessed a horrifying sight as armed Chinese troops were ordered to crush peaceful Chinese protesters asking for reforms, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as well as cities across the...

Hong Kong has been getting an inordinate amount of global attention these days, as is perhaps appropriate for a place that likes to call itself “Asia’s world city”. But it isn’t the kind of publicity most...

US-China trade talks have been suspended for more than two weeks with no sign of a revival. Listening to Donald Trump talk about his good friend Xi Jinping, one may be forgiven for thinking that the...

Since last summer, Hong Kong has worried that it might be caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war. That worry has receded. But another issue, much more fraught, has emerged and rekindled the fear...

Every year for the last decade or so media reports would appear focusing on the plans of China’s millionaires to leave the country. It was unclear how candid such high-net-worth individuals were in responding to interviewers...

A hundred years ago this month, on May 4, 1919, demonstrations erupted in China as students, primarily from Peking University, poured into Tiananmen Square to protest events half a world away, where western nations – primarily...

China did a rare thing at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last week: it admitted that it had made mistakes and pledged to do better in future. Agreed, there was no open admission of...

Taiwan’s 23 million people may face a historic decision in the coming months as the island prepares for a fateful presidential election in which relations with mainland China will be the crucial issue. Party leaders of...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and Beijing will have much reason to celebrate. But, as the lifting of term limits for president last year underlines, China...

Ever since the Hong Kong Policy Act was passed in 1992, the United States has been checking regularly to see if Beijing is keeping its promise to grant Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy under...

In northwestern Beijing, amid universities, parks and museums, sits a striking structure, resembling a sundial – the China Millennium Monument, erected a little more than 20 years ago to welcome the arrival of a new millennium. Inside...

The political atmosphere is heating up in the Taiwan Strait because of the convergence of developments in China, Taiwan and the United States. In China, President Xi Jinping is becoming visibly impatient, asserting that unification of...

Press conferences generate news because of what a prominent person has to say, particularly in response to journalists’ questions. In China, the questions themselves are revealing, since they are screened and only those that suit the...

For almost a year, Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has been mired in scandal. Reports of shoddy work in the US$12.4 billion Shatin-to-Central Link project led to the setting up of a commission of inquiry, followed by...

The failure of the Feb. 27-28 Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit in Hanoi to produce an agreement on denuclearization was largely the result of insufficient preparation by both the United States and North Korea, which relied on...

During the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals, including the infamous kowtow procedure known as “three kneelings and nine prostrations” before being allowed into the imperial presence....

On the second day of the new year, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he called for the fulfillment of the “historic task” of reunifying Taiwan and the mainland, by force if necessary. Days...

Ever since Carrie Lam became Chief Executive of Hong Kong on July 1, 2017, she has had virtually absolute support from the Chinese government, including President Xi Jinping himself. This isn’t surprising, since she was Beijing’s...

As China celebrates the arrival of the Year of the Pig, trade negotiators on both sides of the Pacific pause briefly before resuming talks, this time in Beijing, in an attempt to reach what President Donald...