2018 was a great year in Hong Kong for Xi Jinping and Beijing loyalists. For everyone else, not so much.

That Chu was barred from such a minor election only amplifies Beijing's profound influence in Hong Kong.

Beijing has blasted the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club for allowing activist Andy Chan to speak but its advocates' reasoning casts a more worrying chill.

Democrats need to walk a fine line in order to keep Hong Kong's big issue in play.

'Constructive criticism of Chinese Communist Party leadership will always be allowed,' claimed one pro-Beijing politician, but recent developments have debunked that statement.

Benny Tai's comments on the future possibility of self-determination for people and places in Greater China was nothing new but Beijing's reaction frames new limits on freedom of speech in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's democracy movement is pondering its next move as voters lose hope at the ballot box.

The latest twist in Hong Kong's electoral woes opens a debate on the difference between self-determination and independence.

The distinctions between independence and self-determination should provide ample scope for legal minds to ponder.

Hong Kong's civil servants are taking it upon themselves to act as thought police on Beijing's behalf.

Special by-elections to fill seats vacated by 'oath-breaking' politicians banned by Beijing highlight the challenges faced by pro-democracy advocates in the territory.

The reopening of Civic Square, a symbolic hub for Hong Kong's Occupy protests, served to galvanize protesters on the city's annual Jan. 1 protest march.

Hong Kong's democratic hopes are dimmer than ever.

If Hong Kongers still don’t get the 19th party congress message it won’t be for Beijing’s lack of trying.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's report to the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China revealed once and for all that Beijing intends to exercise 'comprehensive jurisdiction' over Hong Kong, and that the 1997 promise of '50 years without change' can now be consigned to the dustbin of history.

New Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam has proved a master of the art of "responding without answering", enabling her to glide smoothly from one crisis to the next and emerge as the only person Beijing was willing to entrust with the top job.

Donald Trump and Xi Jiping appear to share similar difficulties reconciling their aspirations for national glory with the civil rights and freedoms written into their respective constitutions.

Recent election results from Macau, itself a special administrative region of China like Hong Kong, showed an upswell in support for pro-democracy, anti-establishment candidates.