THE LATEST BLOW: Candidate Certification

Since 1997 when Hong Kong’s new Basic Law mini-constitution went into effect, Chapter III on Fundamental Rights and Duties has held out the promise that permanent residents “shall have the right to vote and the right to stand for election” (Article 26). Also since 1997, when colonial Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, those residents …

ON THE FRONT LINE: Hong Kong Judges Do a Re-Think

The question will no doubt remain forever unanswered, but it should be asked all the same. If Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella-Occupy democracy movement had not registered so great an impact, and the protest over re-sentencing three young leaders had not reverberated both here and elsewhere in the wider world, would the powers that be both …