In 1977, at the height of the Cold War, Lucasfilm released Star Wars, the beginnings of a saga centred around totalitarianism, imperialism and planetary destruction. Just a few months earlier, …

The Dandong “Friendship Bridge” on the China-North Korea border seems a fitting emblem of recent developments in China-North Korea relations. Constructed between 1937-43, the so-called “Friendship Bridge”, named thus in …

Last week witnessed the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (NCCPC), during which President Xi Jinping further cemented his leadership position and unveiled a vision for a …

Despite taking two weeks off for a golfing holiday, Trump’s first summer in the White House has been far from sedate and has been notable for a further ratcheting up …

Which country are you from? Hong Kong. So you’re from China. Yes and no. But isn’t Hong Kong in China? Yes, but they’re not the exact same. But you have …

The Chinese one-child policy can easily find itself labelled as ‘barbaric’, ‘inhumane’, or ‘a mistake’. Yet little is known about the details of the policy and how much impact it …

First there were two, but soon there may be none. It was announced last Friday that the Hong Kong Government will launch judicial reviews against Nathan Law, ‘Long Hair’ Leung …

Dear Editor-in-Chief, I am a 3rd year LLB student at the LSE. I am of Chinese-Canadian background. Having read the articles in your Hong Kong Series, I noticed that submissions …

The democratisation of Hong Kong is wrought with geopolitical constraints. To understand it, we must look beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘democratic’ and ‘authoritarian’. To the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), democracy …

What do I think about the current situation in Hong Kong? Out of everything that has happened in Hong Kong since September’s Legislative Council election, where  a new generation of pro-democracy politicians …