New Questions Emerge Over HK Booksellers’ Detentions
Cheung Chi-ping and Lui Por—two of the five employees of a Hong Kong publishing house and its affiliated bookstore who were detained in China—have returned to Hong Kong pending an investigation. A...
View ArticleHeightened Security, Protests Greet Zhang Dejiang in HK
Zhang Dejiang, the third in command in the Communist Party after Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, is the top Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong and Macau affairs. He arrived in Hong Kong Tuesday for a...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): Lancôme in the Crossfire
A war of words has broken out in Hong Kong between supporters of Canto-pop star and democracy activist Denise Ho and Chinese nationalists who called on cosmetics maker Lancôme to drop her from a...
View ArticleProtests in HK Amid Tensions Over Detained Booksellers
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Hong Kong on Friday for the territory’s annual pro-democracy march on July 1st, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from British to...
View Article“Unnerving” Sentences For Umbrella Protest Leaders
Reuters’ Venus Wu and Hera Poon report on the sentencing of three student leaders behind the 2014 “Umbrella Movement” protests in Hong Kong: Teenage activist Joshua Wong, 19, was given 80 hours of...
View ArticleStruggle Over HK’s Identity to Continue After Election
On Sunday, voters in Hong Kong turned out in record numbers to elect a new generation of young pro-democracy activists to the territory’s Legislative Council in the first major election since the 2014...
View ArticleNew Hong Kong Legislators Barred After Protesting Oath
In September, a record turnout in Hong Kong elected a number of young pro-democracy and localist activists to the Legislative Council in the first elections since 2014’s “Umbrella Movement.” During the...
View ArticleBeijing’s Interpretation of HK Basic Law Draws Concern
Update (November 6, 9:00 pm PST): The National People’s Congress has issued an interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law saying that Hong Kong lawmakers must swear allegiance to Hong Kong as part...
View ArticleBasic Law Interpretation Raises Specter of Article 23
In a widely anticipated move, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee issued an interpretation of Article 104 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, stating that when taking office, public officials,...
View ArticleHong Kong High Court Bars Localist Lawmakers
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that two newly elected Legislative Council members are not allowed to take their seats after they refused to repeat words in their oath pledging allegiance to Hong Kong...
View ArticleGenerational Divide Splits Hong Kong Views of June 4
For the past 28 years, Hong Kong has held an annual vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the lives lost in the June 4, 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing. Over the years, attendance has...
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Badiucao Echoes Nobel Call for HK Democrats
Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, three young democracy campaigners and leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 “Umbrella Movement,” were each given 6-8 month prison sentences for “unlawful assembly” last...
View ArticleHK Democrats Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and other leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong democracy movement were last week nominated for the Nobel peace prize by a bipartisan group of 12 U.S....
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Tsai Calls on China to “Face Reality” Over Taiwan
In a major address marking the 40th anniversary of the CCP’s first Taiwan policy statement, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China will strive for peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan under...
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Hong Kong Protest Leaders Sentenced
Nine defendants have been convicted–and eight sentenced–on “public nuisance” charges for their role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong. Professors Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man and...
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Tens of Thousands Protest New Extradition Rules in HK
Tens of thousands of people protested in Hong Kong today over proposed changes to extradition rules, in the largest public demonstration since 2014’s Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement. Police estimated...
View Article30 Years Ago: Students Renew Call for Change
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent June 4th military crackdown in Beijing. To commemorate the student movement, CDT is...
View ArticleMassive Protests Against HK Extradition Law
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday in opposition to a planned law that would allow for extradition to China, among other places. The march was one of the...
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Sensitive Words: “Let’s Go Hong Kong!”
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We...
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Violence Erupts at HK Protests as LegCo Delays Debate
Mass demonstrations rocked Hong Kong on Wednesday, the day of a planned legislative debate over the controversial Extradition Bill, the target of another large-scale protest over the weekend which drew...
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