Since the beginning of this year, certain media outlets, political parties and government officials have been exaggerating the asylum seeker/refugee issue, despite a lack of official statistics to prove that crime related to “refugees” has risen in the last year. Nevertheless, politicians continue to produce sensational figures and make irresponsible statements when describing Hong Kong’s “refugee crisis.” Recently, some politicians even positioned themselves as … Continue reading A cynical appeal to xenophobia: Hong Kong’s ‘fake refugee problem’ is fake in itself