Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s firing of two ministers and replacing them with new faces is part of a gambit to minimise any damage to his government’s standing and even secure decisive short-term wins on the tourism and aviation fronts as emphasised by Beijing, analysts said. They also said his move on Thursday…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s firing of two ministers and replacing them with new faces is part of a gambit to minimise any damage to his government’s standing and even secure decisive short-term wins on the tourism and aviation fronts as emphasised by Beijing, analysts said. They also said his move on Thursday…
The Chinese navy will start making regular visits to Hong Kong, in a move analysts have said will help boost national identity and pride. Senior Colonel Wu Qian, from the Ministry of National Defence, made the announcement on Thursday after two of the country’s vessels arrived in the city last week for a five-day visit….
A senior Beijing official’s remarks that the “Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong” guiding principle implies oversight by central authorities are a reminder that the city has never been an “independent political entity”, political analysts have said. They also argued that Zhang Yong, vice-chairman of the Basic Law Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)…
The sentences handed down to former opposition activists in Hong Kong’s landmark national security case on Tuesday were proportionate, neither too lenient nor overly harsh, given the court’s decision that the plot they hatched undermined national security and was tantamount to wanting to overthrow the government, some legal experts have said. The experts contacted by…