The Latest Threats to Freedom in Hong Kong
Category: POLITICS
While the main trend in Berlin after the Wall came down was for all of the city to become influenced by the freer public sphere that existed on the Checkpoint Charlie side, in Hong Kong, the opposite kind of trend, that of a free zone getting more constrained rather than a controlled becoming less controlled.
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom, ContributorChancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine, 2016-01-09