All posts tagged Hong Kong

Wednesday Night #1954
August 28, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1954

The world – and host country France – appear to have survived the 2019 G7 Summit relatively unscathed. Both ...

Wednesday Night #1953
August 21, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1953

August 23, 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the infamous Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially known as the Treaty of ...

Wednesday Night #1952
August 14, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1952

It is a delight  to welcome Tyler Meredith this Wednesday after a long absence. We have not seen Tyler since he left IR ...

Wednesday Night #1951
August 7, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1951

Arguably summer’s excessive heat contributes to general irritability, irrational behavior, and, sadly, in some cases c ...

Wednesday Night #1950
July 31, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1950

One of the last of the Expo leadership team, Yves Jasmin, for whom I worked in my first years at Expo and who post-Expo ...

Wednesday Night #1946
July 3, 2019, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1946

On the eve of the Glorious Fourth, there is not much to celebrate. Least of all, Trump’s ludicrous hijacking of th ...

China – Hong Kong 2012 – June 2019
June 24, 2019, Comments Off on China – Hong Kong 2012 – June 2019

Hong Kong extradition law 24 June ‘We will not allow the G20 to discuss the Hong Kong issue,’ says Beijing China sai ...

E is for Espionage and Edward Snowden
May 13, 2014, 3 Comments

Dr. Charles Cogan: Coming on a Year After the Snowden Revelations, the Germans Are Still Less Than Satisfied with the U. ...

China & human rights
December 16, 2011, 1 Comment

Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China ; Human Rights Watch ; Amnesty International Kilgour and ...

Wednesday Night #800 Hong Kong handover
July 2, 1997, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #800 Hong Kong handover

2 July 1997 On July 1, 1997, over a hundred and fifty years of British rule ended in Hong Kong as it returned to China. ...