EAST ASIA

Hong Kong: no safety in exile

China spy case exposes the global reach of its transnational repression

Japan’s right-wing populist rise

Xenophobic party benefits from economic anger to win significant parliamentary presence

The silencing of Hong Kong

Five years of extraordinary repression have curbed a once vibrant democracy movement

South Korea‘s democracy renewed

New president leads a country strengthened by civic resistance but facing economic and political challenges

South Korea: democracy defended

People defeat presidential power grab

Hong Kong’s crackdown intensifies

Latest tools of repression include new school lessons and tougher national security law

Democracy alive and well in Taiwan

Vibrant election campaign against backdrop of China’s threat

Hong Kong goes after its exiles

International arrest warrants and bounties all part of a picture of transnational repression

Hong Kong’s lights of freedom extinguished

Attempts to mark anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre met with further repression

China: pandemic protests force a rare retreat

Authoritarian state gives into protest pressure by dropping its ‘zero covid’ policy