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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Where the Pandemic Is Cover for Authoritarianism
In Hong Kong and around the world, public-health concerns are being used to excuse extraordinary overreach.
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PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Most Brazen Arrest Yet
The authorities insist freedoms will be upheld. Their actions show otherwise.
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Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum A Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy
The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper—for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows.
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Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Hong Kong Is a Colony Once More
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
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Marly Gallardo The Leader Who Killed Her City
Carrie Lam has been a unique failure. Yet she is merely a symptom of Hong Kong’s ills.
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The Atlantic Lessons for American Police From Hong Kong
The city’s force had dubbed itself “Asia’s Finest.” Now it is seen by many as an occupying force.
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Philip Fong / AFP / Getty Pandemic Dining: Temperature Checks, Time Limits, and Dividers
The experience of eating out in Hong Kong illustrates what it’s like to visit a restaurant right now.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Is This Taiwan’s Moment?
Countries “are not backing down in the face of Chinese pressure” over the island, its foreign minister says.
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Adeshola Makinde What Happens to Gambling When Sports Shut Down?
The cancellation of major events has left stadiums empty and casinos closed.
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(Turjoy Chowdhury / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Unseen Pandemic
Refugee camps such as those in Bangladesh are a tinderbox for the spread of the coronavirus.
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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Get Used to It: This Lockdown Won’t Be the Last
New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single round of constraints won’t be enough to beat the pandemic.
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Martin Chan / South China Morning Post via ... A Glimpse of the Coronavirus’s Possible Legacy
The imprint SARS has left on Hong Kong speaks to the legacy COVID-19 may well leave on much of the world.
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Estelle Ruiz / NurPhoto / Getty The Other Problematic Outbreak
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism.
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Nerthuz / Getty / The Atlantic What Could Happen if the Coronavirus Closed Schools for Days, Weeks, or Even Months
We can get a sense of what to expect from Hong Kong, where students have already been out of school for more than a month.
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Ann Wang / Reuters Coronavirus Is Devastating Chinese Tourism
Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Democracy Drives Labor in a Hyper-Capitalist City
Growing numbers of people are joining unions in Hong Kong to pressure the authorities to respond to their demands.
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Bloomberg / Getty Hong Kong’s Perfect Crisis
The city’s prodemocracy protests and the threat of coronavirus build on common complaints.
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Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Protesters Finally Have (Some) Power
Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.
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