Essential qualities of those administering Hong Kong
Pauline Ng, Jeffrey Wong, Sharleen Bian 2021-12-10 XIA Baolong, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, highlighted at a discussion forum themed “First Anniversary of Promulgating the Law of the ...
The Kuomintang’s new path on cross-strait relations
GUO Zhenjia 2020-11-02 The Kuomintang (KMT) adjusted the expression and meaning of the 1992 Consensus at its annual Party Congress held on 6 September 2020. The adjustment highlights the KMT’s unilateral will, and the so-called “consciousness of sovereignty” stressed by the wording is beyond the scope of the 1992 ...
Reflections on the “primary election” held by the opposition camp of the Hong Kong LegCo
ZHU Liwei 2020-10-14 The opposition camp of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) held a “primary election” on 11 and 12 July 2020 to identify candidates who could win most votes to represent the opposition camp in the 2020 LegCo General Election. Losers would have to step down and declare ...
Dealing with the Kuomintang’s new cross-strait discourse with new thinking
LUO Shihong 2020-09-28 In early March 2020, the 48-year-old Chiang Chi-chen defeated the 69-year-old Hau Lung-pin and won the Kuomintang (KMT) chairmanship by-election, becoming the youngest KMT chairman in history. As the new chairman, Chiang Chi-chen inherited the job to lead a party with low public support in the context ...
Priority of Hainan free trade port project
Nian PENG 2020-09-02 Things have changed in the new era, and the conventional approaches adopted in the era of globalisation are no longer applicable to the development of Hainan Free Trade Port. In line with the deglobalisation trend, it is essential to build the Port in accordance with its Chinese ...
Ensuring political correctness in Hong Kong in the internet era
WU Junfei 2020-08-24 In order to strike the golden mean, Hong Kong should not only eliminate identity-based social prejudice but work to resolve deep-seated social contradictions, especially the poverty issue facing disadvantaged groups, so that people at the grassroots can benefit from Hong Kong’s economic development. This is the fundamental ...
Neo-tribalism polarises Hong Kong society
WU Junfei 2020-06-26 Reflecting upon the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong, people are puzzled by several questions: why did this turmoil without an acknowledged leader continue for so long? What is the nature of this social unrest? Why did gangsters specifically target Mandarin-speaking Mainland Chinese? From the perspective of neo-tribalism, ...
Cross-strait relations after the 2020 Taiwan general election
SHENG Jiuyuan 2020-05-14 The 2020 Taiwanese General Election, a landmark event in the development of cross-Strait relations, will exert significant impacts on political trends in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations.
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It’s time to boldly expand public housing
LIU Lanchang 2020-04-24 There isn’t much to criticise the HKSAR government’s response to the outbreak of COVID-19 as it has largely controlled the transmission channels of the pandemic and prevented large-scale community outbreaks. The government has also made reasonable efforts to address secondary impacts of the pandemic on the economy ...
Developing the Macau stock exchange to achieve complementary development
LIN Deqin, XU Dongpeng 2020-04-09 According to the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council of China in February 2019, development of the financial industry in Macau is clarified to support the city in realising a complementary ...
