Hong Kong

  • May 5, 2020
  • 2 min read

Pandemic will do enduring damage to Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong’s GDP fell 8.9% in the first quarter of 2020, largely due to COVID-19 lockdowns at home and abroad

Hong Kong
  • Apr 30, 2020
  • 2 min read

Hong Kong street protests will likely resume soon

Anti-government activists are preparing to resume protests when social distancing policies are relaxed

Hong Kong
  • Apr 21, 2020
  • 2 min read

East Asia’s COVID-19 success will be hard to replicate

Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have all been relatively successful in dealing with COVID-19

East Asia
  • Mar 5, 2020
  • 7 min read

COVID-19 will have severe impact on Hong Kong

The Hong Kong government's measures against the COVID-19 outbreak face criticism as too little, too late

Hong Kong
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • 2 min read

Coronavirus makes for precarious politics in East Asia

The effects of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak will be felt much further than the disease's actual spread

East Asia
  • Feb 3, 2020
  • 2 min read

Coronavirus will worsen public anger in Hong Kong

Anti-government activists have begun planting home-made bombs

Hong Kong
  • Jan 7, 2020
  • 2 min read

Risks and opportunities 2020: East Asia

East Asia enters the 2020s with new risks emerging and longstanding ones freshly revived

East Asia
  • Jan 6, 2020
  • 2 min read

Beijing’s new envoy will take harder line in Hong Kong

The central government’s top ‘liaison’ official has been replaced by a successor who is new to Hong Kong affairs

Hong Kong