The Federal Reserve has had an artificial demand boost due to likely supply shortages expected as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a near double-digit inflation, the dollar-decline voices have also re-emerged. Such voices have not been heard for some decades. The first time could date back to the early 1970s when the…
No Decline of US Dollar Expected Anytime Soon
May 5, 2022
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Samuel Chu on Hong Kong’s Future: ‘Once People Have Tasted Freedom, You Can’t Tell Them to Forget It’
May 4, 2022
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Hong Kong’s upcoming executive election has just one candidate. This Sunday, the city will “choose” its next chief executive. Meanwhile, the Chinese communist regime continues to clamp down on the ever-shrinking freedoms in the city. Why do the people of Hong Kong continue to fight for change? I speak with Samuel Chu, a Hong Kong…
Film Review: ‘Blue Island’: Documentary of Communist Suppression in Hong Kong
When it comes to the Chinese Communist Party cracking down on dissent, you can always count on history repeating itself, over and over again. Older Hongkongers learned that lesson watching the Mainland from afar, whereas the younger generation learned it first-hand during the 2019 Extradition Law Protests. The Umbrella generation of activists come together with…
Tension Grows Between the CCP and the Chinese People
Commentary During the era of China’s economic reform and opening up to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese people accepted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule. The principal reason was that the Chinese leadership secured its legitimacy through economic growth. People’s living standards improved substantially, and they expected further improvements ahead. Hence they did not…
Hong Kong Economy Shrinks 4 Percent Under Anti-Virus Controls
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s economy shrank by 4 percent compared with a year earlier in the quarter ending in March after the city shut restaurants and other businesses amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Growth plunged from the previous quarter’s 4 percent expansion, government data showed Tuesday. Exports of goods fell 4.5 percent from a year…
Former Associate Professor of HK University To Be Sentenced for Alleged Violations of Election Ordinance in 2016 Legal Council Election
Hong Kong’s District Court will sentence Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a renowned scholar in Hong Kong, on four charges of violating the election ordinance after he placed an advertisement calling on the public to “vote strategically” against political manipulation in the 2016 Legal Council election. Tai Yiu-ting pleaded guilty on April 25 in the District Court. The…
Former Associate Professor of HK University To Be Sentenced for Alleged Violations of Election Laws
Hong Kong’s District Court will sentence Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a renowned scholar in Hong Kong, on four charges of violating the election ordinance after he placed an advertisement calling on the public to “vote strategically” against political manipulation in the 2016 Legal Council election. Tai Yiu-ting pleaded guilty on April 25 in the District Court. The…
Hong Kong Civil Servants Resign, Recruits to be Tested on National Security Law
May 3, 2022
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With the latest figures showing that the number of Hong Kong civil servant resignations at an all time high, the Hong Kong government is further strengthening its ideological control over civil servant with its announcement that starting July 1, 2022, a test on the National Security Law will be part of its recruitment of civil…
Hong Kong No Longer A Safe Place for Free Speech, Scholar Left Hong Kong for UK
Chung Kim-wah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI), announced on April 24 that he was leaving Hong Kong for the UK. He posted on social media: “I Don’t want to be a deserter, but I have to avoid tyranny.” Before leaving Hong Kong, Chung Kim-wah and HKPORI were repeatedly…
American Lawyer Appeals to Hong Kong’s Top Court After Serving Jail Time and Deportation
An American corporate lawyer who was deported from Hong Kong after serving prison time for assaulting a plainclothes police officer during the 2019 protests said he has applied to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal to continue challenging his conviction. Samuel Phillip Bickett, 38, a former compliance director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch,…
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