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ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP / Getty How History Gets Rewritten
Hong Kong’s leaders and police have sought to recast what has happened in the past year. Even if no one is convinced, it may not matter.
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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Where the Pandemic Is Cover for Authoritarianism
In Hong Kong and around the world, public-health concerns are being used to excuse extraordinary overreach.
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PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Most Brazen Arrest Yet
The authorities insist freedoms will be upheld. Their actions show otherwise.
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Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum A Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy
The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper—for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows.
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Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Hong Kong Is a Colony Once More
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
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Marly Gallardo The Leader Who Killed Her City
Carrie Lam has been a unique failure. Yet she is merely a symptom of Hong Kong’s ills.
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The Atlantic Lessons for American Police From Hong Kong
The city’s force had dubbed itself “Asia’s Finest.” Now it is seen by many as an occupying force.
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Philip Fong / AFP / Getty Pandemic Dining: Temperature Checks, Time Limits, and Dividers
The experience of eating out in Hong Kong illustrates what it’s like to visit a restaurant right now.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Is This Taiwan’s Moment?
Countries “are not backing down in the face of Chinese pressure” over the island, its foreign minister says.
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Adeshola Makinde What Happens to Gambling When Sports Shut Down?
The cancellation of major events has left stadiums empty and casinos closed.
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(Turjoy Chowdhury / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Unseen Pandemic
Refugee camps such as those in Bangladesh are a tinderbox for the spread of the coronavirus.
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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Get Used to It: This Lockdown Won’t Be the Last
New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single round of constraints won’t be enough to beat the pandemic.
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Martin Chan / South China Morning Post via ... A Glimpse of the Coronavirus’s Possible Legacy
The imprint SARS has left on Hong Kong speaks to the legacy COVID-19 may well leave on much of the world.
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Estelle Ruiz / NurPhoto / Getty The Other Problematic Outbreak
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism.
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Nerthuz / Getty / The Atlantic What Could Happen if the Coronavirus Closed Schools for Days, Weeks, or Even Months
We can get a sense of what to expect from Hong Kong, where students have already been out of school for more than a month.
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Ann Wang / Reuters Coronavirus Is Devastating Chinese Tourism
Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Democracy Drives Labor in a Hyper-Capitalist City
Growing numbers of people are joining unions in Hong Kong to pressure the authorities to respond to their demands.
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Bloomberg / Getty Hong Kong’s Perfect Crisis
The city’s prodemocracy protests and the threat of coronavirus build on common complaints.
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