Hong Kong in the rain
August 10, 2018
I travel to Hong Kong and plan to talk to Joshua Wong about the future of the city.
Category: China
Meeting Joshua Wong
August 11, 2018
It is Saturday morning and I am about to meet up with Joshua Wong at the Bricklane Café right across from Hong Kong’s Legislature where Wong’s political party has its office. It turns out that Wong has already been at work that weekend morning and I am not the only visitor he will see that day.
I am curious to hear from him about the current state of Hong Kong politics.
Why China matters – also in political philosophy
There are plenty of reasons why we should be interested in China. It is the world’s most populous country with more than a billion people and it presents thus (together with India) a singular challenge as to how a state of such magnitude can be governed.
Capitalism and Democracy. A Lesson from Hong Kong
The rise of Xi Jinping has made Hong Kong democrats increasingly nervous. But the main threat to their goal to make Hong Kong more democratic does not even come from the authorities in Beijing; it comes from their own home-grown capitalists. The case of Hong Kong raises broad questions about the state of global politics and the future of democracy.
President for Life
Xi Jinping Rule
What’s happening in China? On Sunday, February 25, the Xinhua news agency reported: “The Communist Party of China Central Committee proposed to remove the expression that the President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the country’s Constitution.” Some commentators called this a bombshell.
Zuriaake
January 23, 2018 – We must keep an eye on China, if we are to understand the future of global politics.
An article in the South China Morning Post drew my attention to Zuriaake, an intriguing and unsettling Chinese black metal band:
