• The dying of the light

    Brendan Clift     |      July 8, 2025

    Hong Kong is marking five years of life under China’s national security law – opposition parties have disbanded, while democracy activists remain in jail or exile.

  • Hong Kong’s walled garden

    Brendan Clift     |      February 10, 2023

    China’s tightening grip on Hong Kong may have fallen from the headlines, but the suffocating grip of the Chinese Communist Party increases every day.

  • Judicial repression in Hong Kong

    Brendan Clift     |      February 21, 2021

    Communist China’s remorseless strangulation of freedom in Hong Kong extends to its courts as well as politics and security.

  • Hong Kong: The canary in the coal mine

    Brendan Clift     |      August 23, 2019

    Hong Kong continues to be wracked by civil unrest as its people protest against Chinese oppression. How did it come to this, what does it signal, and where is it likely to end?