It is time for the Hong Kong movement to affirm its solidarity with oppressed people across the world. We have much to learn from the struggle for Black liberation.
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The attack on Sunrise Movement’s collaboration with a Hong Kong activist forwarding the claim that the entire Hong Kong movement is aligned with Trump and Republicans stems from a racist logic that strips Hong Kong protesters of their political agency.
In the latest nationalist flare up, President Trump imposed new visa restrictions on STEM graduate students and scholars from China.
China and the US are carceral states. Yet US politicians have praised resistance to police violence in Hong Kong while condoning police brutality in the name of law and order at home.
A year of solidarity among strangers, seen through the eyes of Lausan's photographer.
Hong Kong’s rising current of localism is rooted in anti-Chinese and anti-immigrant beliefs. But we must reject such bigoted ideas and remember that Hong Kong’s ongoing movement comes from the same canon of radical resistance as the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
Despite the severity of state violence in the US, the response from Hongkongers has been mixed. Some have completely refused to show support and have even defended Trump’s call to use military force.
The US’s restriction of visas for Chinese journalists is a blow to press freedom yet its fallout has been largely overlooked in the mainstream media.
The recent override of Hong Kong legal and political institutions in pushing for national security laws shows precisely how vulnerable the Basic Law has always been to manipulation by elite interests.
Pro-democracy lawmaker Dennis Kwok has called it “the most devastating thing to happen to Hong Kong since the handover.” In this piece, we hope to shed some light on the new law, some of the legal nuances, and what it means for the future of Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Police Force is having a hard time meeting their recruitment targets and have turned to recruiting at Western universities.
The COVID-19 crisis has touched a racist nerve among Chinese Singaporeans, but it is nothing new for Singapore’s migrant workers.