It is difficult to generate much optimism for the up-coming “dialogue” between government and people, because so many outcomes have been ruled out from the start. The Executive Council convenor, Bernard Chan, has said that the government has agreed that there will be no “further concessions” on the five points for which protesters have been … Continue reading Hongkongers’ dialogue with Carrie Lam? You say what you want, and I’ll tell you you can’t have it