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Hong Kong, now safe from hostile interventions, is back on the map

Hong Kong is number one on the global economic freedom index, number one in a study of best university cities, number one in the world IPO chart, and so on. There's much to celebrate on its 28th post-colonial birthday, says Grenville Cross. TODAY, THE HONG KONG Special Administrative Region celebrates the 28th anniversary of its establishment. With…

July 1, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

US is sanctioning the Hong Kong people who stood up against violence

How do you react when brave investigators successfully arrest arsonists and bombmakers? Most people would be happy. If you're the US government, you punish Hong Kong police chiefs. If you're a western journalist, you look the other way. Grenville Cross reports. “GREAT POWER INVOLVES great responsibility,” said the former US president Franklin D Roosevelt.…

April 3, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

Rule of law in Hong Kong faces existential threats from the west

Once again, Hong Kong scored higher on the global legal index than many western countries. But our legal sector is under international attack, warned Grenville Cross, in this extract from this 14 March 2025 speech he gave to undergraduate lawyers at Chinese University of Hong Kong. OUR CITY FACES existential threats to its rule of…

March 19, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

How Hong Kong’s solicitor group steered their ship through stormy waters

The actions of certain lawyers were a key reason why the months-long 2019 violent insurgency in Hong Kong hit the community so hard. But while a worrying number of barristers became hyper-politicized, the city's body of solicitors worked hard to keep the boat steady. Their professionalism deserves to be recognized, says Grenville Cross. …

March 13, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

How the HK Bar Association lost its way – and was guided back on track

In Hong Kong's nightmarish 2019 insurgency, the once-respected Hong Kong Bar Association became a powerful anti-China group, thanks to politicized leaders - and connections with a notorious CIA front organization called the NED. Finally the group has returned to doing what it used to do so well: world class law. Grenville Cross reports. THE HONG…

February 12, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

China news Hong Kong News

Gutsy UK finance chief Reeve faces down the anti-China mob

When new British finance chief Rachel Reeves said she was going to rebuild the friendship between China and the UK, a multi-pronged operation was launched to spoil her mission. It failed. Grenville Cross reports. In 1986, then-US president Ronald Reagan said, “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” As the…

January 17, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

China news Opinion

Starmer wants China friendship but MI5 is following a different script

Working to create positive relationships between the peoples of UK and China is now a crime in the eyes of MI5. This harmful policy has been easy to implement when they just pointed at ethnic Chinese. But now leader Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship too. Grenville Cross reports. On Oct 16, 2022, black-clad provocateurs,…

January 3, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

Stephen Roach, don’t bet against Hong Kong people

IN 1897, WHEN THE New York Journal told Mark Twain, the humorist, of the rumor he was dying in poverty in London, he was amused. He replied, “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” hoping to nip the story in the bud. The same can also be said of anybody who predicts Hong…

March 5, 20240Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News News Opinion

Give Hong Kong judges flexibility in sentencing

While Hong Kong was still run by the British, the Basic Law was drawn up, which included an article numbered 23 - which was an acknowledgement that Hong Kong should not be deprived of the security laws that virtually all other places have to keep them safe. But some Hong Kong people were nervous,…

February 22, 20240Comments ByGrenville Cross

Features News Opinion

Here’s how to understand Hong Kong’s Article 23

Sedition is a serious offence in countries around the world, and was made a crime in Hong Kong by the British. But when the city makes any move to codify this principle, it's painted as an shocking outrage with vague insinuations about authoritarianism. Grenville Cross looks at the actual facts of the matter. THE OFFENCE…

February 16, 20240Comments ByGrenville Cross

Grenville Cross

Hong Kong, now safe from hostile interventions, is back on the map

US is sanctioning the Hong Kong people who stood up against violence

Rule of law in Hong Kong faces existential threats from the west

How Hong Kong’s solicitor group steered their ship through stormy waters

How the HK Bar Association lost its way – and was guided back on track

Gutsy UK finance chief Reeve faces down the anti-China mob

Starmer wants China friendship but MI5 is following a different script

Stephen Roach, don’t bet against Hong Kong people

Give Hong Kong judges flexibility in sentencing

Here’s how to understand Hong Kong’s Article 23

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?

Scientists find ‘feminist paradise’ existed more than 4 millennia ago