Before the handover, when there were 7,000 foreign journalists in town and everyone who was anyone had already been interviewed, one of them got round to me. Why me, I wondered. The reporter, a gentleman from Toronto, said he had heard I had an unusually pessimistic view. I protested. Many people were more pessimistic than … Continue reading HK20: Pessimism and hope in Hong Kong, 20 years after the city’s return to China