Contents Summary The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to address today’s challenges with yesterday’s recipes, lacked the … Continue reading “Beyond Freeports”

  Freeports strategy in the UK is insufficient, adding more bureaucracy and red tape for short term political gain instead … Continue reading “Create a new Hong Kong in the UK, economist argues”

Benedict Rogers is a British human rights activist and the co-founder and trustee of Hong Kong Watch, with extensive experience in … Continue reading “Book review: “The China Nexus” by Benedict Rogers”

Although the coronavirus scare has dampened the protests in Hong Kong, last year’s events attracted worldwide attention which has not … Continue reading “Hong Kong is becoming less important for China – and this is bad news”

As the world entered the turbulent 1960s, two men, half a world apart, one a doctor and the other a … Continue reading “Human progress in Cuba and Hong Kong”

As World War II drew to a close, few visitors to Hong Kong would have predicted that this “barren island” … Continue reading “Hong Kong: a free-market success story”

Earlier this week, Hong Kong’s government decided to impose a full ban on the sale, manufacture and import of e-cigarettes. … Continue reading “The rise of e-cigarettes – a parable of the free market”

The rapid economic growth of East Asian economies after World War II led many to mistakenly believe that government industrial … Continue reading “East Asia’s economic development: state planning or freedom?”

In the early 1960s, Chicago economist Milton Friedman travelled to Hong Kong to meet Sir John Cowperthwaite, the colony’s Financial … Continue reading “Switzerland has no official poverty statistics. So what?”