HRIC Daily Brief

Crimes Ordinance Sedition versus Hong Kong’s National Security Law: different legal tools, same outcome? The China Collection, January 6, 2...

第四權 (The fourth estate) Ming Pao, January 5, 2022 Excerpt: 新聞自由的環境跟過去已大不相同，大家都心裏有數。太多的「不確定性」，令人如履薄冰，如果說新聞界沒有擔憂，相信只是自欺欺人。(The environment...

煽動苛法無邊 傳媒岌岌可危 (Boundless harsh incitement laws pose imminent danger to media) Ming Pao, January 4, 2022 2021年香港回顾：那些年让港人耳熟能詳的人、物、事 (202...

习近平已经进入“毛晚期”——文革史学家宋永毅专访(Xi Jinping has entered the "late Mao period": Interview with Song Yongyi, historian of the Cultural Revol...

Why Authoritarian Regimes Bother With Elections The Atlantic, December 21, 2021 Hong Kong and Taiwan both vote, in very different ways, wi...

Hong Kong’s Rigged Election The Diplomat, December 18, 2021 How a ruling by Hong Kong’s top court opens the door to a more intrusive secur...

审查、监控、压迫：不，中国不是“民主”国家(Censorship, surveillance, oppression: No, China is not a "democratic" country) Voice of America, December 17...

China’s Fake Twitter Accounts Are Tweeting Into the Void Foreign Policy, December 15, 2021

Chinese Authorities Double Down on Tibetan Reincarnations Human Rights Watch, December 15, 2021 Its Human Rights Record in Question, China ...

谢燕益：没有私心就不会有恐惧——梁小军律师吊照听证代理词(Lawyer Xie Yanyi: Where there are no selfish motives, there will be no fear—Opinion on the hearing of revocatio...

Why China Is Freaking Out Over Biden’s Democracy Summit Foreign Policy, December 10, 2021 Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam should take Legco electio...

Biden’s Democracy Conference Is About Much More Than Democracy 拜登“民主峰会”真正的意义 The New York Times, December 9, 2021 Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigi...

Hong Kong’s National Security Law Made Amnesty International’s Departure All But Inevitable ChinaFile, December 6, 2021 谁让习主席成了国际笑柄 (Who m...

费加罗报：中国实施开放40年后，再次回到关闭状态 (Le Figaro: After 40 years of opening, China is closing its door again) Radio France Internationale, December 6, 20...

China: WTA’s decision should push for effective investigation of sexual violence Amnesty International, December 2, 2021 Why Peng Shuai Has...

Olympics: Protect Peng Shuai Human Rights Watch, December 1, 2021

Xi Is Bending Chinese Law to His Will Foreign Affairs, November 24, 2021 中共需要的不是更多「歷史決議」，而是權力制衡 (The CPC needs checks and balances, not mo...

West weighs up costs of boycotting China’s Winter Olympics The Guardian, November 22, 2021 Olympics: Don’t Promote Chinese State Propagand...

The Chinese Communist Party Still Thinks It Owns the Future Foreign Policy, November 21, 2021 Hong Kong gov’t has to admit its failings ove...

Steve Vines: The future of press freedom in Hong Kong Hong Kong Free Press, November 19, 2021 Biden Thinks He Can Have It Both Ways on Ch...