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The need for non-violence in Hong Kong.

The gloves are off in Hong Kong. Judging from the pictures on today’s BBC News the police no longer have any compunction about beating...

Ben Okri, a great novelist, hits out.

“In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once...

Reading the tea-leaves in Hong Kong.

In 1995 in a little remembered event Li Ruthuan, a member of the Chinese Politiburo (containing the top seven in the government), made a...

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