The rejection of Yau Wai-Ching and Baggio Leung’s appeal against their disqualification from Hong Kong’s Legislative Council should not be surprising. The real question now is how far Beijing's political purges will go...
Keen observers of Hong Kong localism would probably remember the Legislative Council election of September 2016 as a watershed marking the political movement’s much coveted entry into the parliamentary institution...
Recent demonstrations in Hong Kong revolving around brands and products may indicate product brands have in some way become contested territory regarding issues of identity...
The talk on Hong Kong identity has rattled for so long in the political realm, marking the fact that the rise of localism, together with the rhetorical style it makes fashionable, has unfortunately crowded out the conversations on other more important institutional issues...
Recent attempts to claim the Mong Kok riots on February 9th in Hong Kong are evidence of “fascism” are the pro-unification Left up to its old tricks...
More than a year since the Umbrella Movement took the world by storm, the debate over its significance remains shrouded in a cloud of propaganda, censorship, or worse, a distorted form of leftist Orientalism...