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Legislation introduced last April to allow the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China motivated millions into the streets in protests that have not yet ended . . . . . . including a major pro-democracy rally scheduled for tomorrow in Causeway Bay. Traveling to Hong Kong and Taiwan months ago, the […]
Last Friday, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the National Basketball Association’s Houston Rockets, tweeted a graphic repeating the Hong Kong protesters’ chant, “Fight for freedom! “Stand with Hong Kong!” But before I could hit “like,” he deleted it amid the massive backlash from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese companies it rules. […]
I got my first taste of tear gas yesterday. Minding my own business — well, maybe not so much . . . except that “mankind is my business” — I joined Hong Kong’s Global Anti-Totalitarianism Rally. Is there a more important cause than preventing totalitarian regimes from crushing more lives? Arriving at the city government […]
Alex Ko is “exactly the kind of person China is worried about,” informs the BBC. Described as “soft-spoken” and “bespectacled,” the 23-year-old Ko lives in Taiwan, hundreds of ocean miles away from Hong Kong, where for months the streets have been consumed in protests demanding simple but difficult things: freedom, democracy, government accountability. What can […]
Why so many things are made in China, or Taiwan, Singapore . . . or Mexico? I have no beef with foreign trade, mind you. Just as I don’t want government to favor one business over another here in the U.S., I don’t really want that to happen across borders, either. I know what comparative […]
Looks like our presidential candidates keep flunking their foreign policy exams. Question is, how much do we care? Weeks ago, Governor George Bush failed a reporter’s pop quiz. He could name the leader of Taiwan but not the leaders of Chechnya, India, or Pakistan. More recently, a reporter tripped up Senator John McCain. McCain couldn’t […]