by News Decoder | 18 Mar 2020 | Health and Wellness
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
by Jonathan Sharp | 29 Nov 2019 | Asia, China
Pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong have won a big electoral victory after months of protests. Will Beijing listen — or crack down? Pro-democracy protesters in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, China, 26 November 2019 (EPA-EFE/FAZRY ISMAIL) Six months into often violent...
by Jonathan Sharp | 3 Oct 2019 | China
The call by Hong Kong protesters for full democracy is the one least likely to be met. One-party state China most emphatically does not do democracy. A portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping lies covered with debris after a protest in Hong Kong, China, 1 October...
by News Decoder | 5 Aug 2019 | Asia, China, Culture, Personal Reflections, Youth Voices
By Kaitlyn-Lee Mun It was a Sunday afternoon in early June at Hong Kong’s Kowloon Park. Cicadas buzzed incessantly, delivering a deafening chorus. On this humid day, the air like soup, people gathered to watch a weekly Kung Fu performance. I was in the crowd,...
by Jonathan Sharp | 30 Jul 2019 | Asia, China
As protests against Hong Kong authorities become more violent, worries that China’s army might intervene are mounting. A protester confronts Hong Kong police near land just transferred to the People’s Liberation Army, Hong Kong, China, 29 June 2019...