The idea that Hong Kong and China were one country divided by two systems has never sounded a stable basis for a nation. Yet it has worked tolerably well since Britain handed over control of Hong Kong to China in 1997. The promise of freedom for the former colony was signed into the joint declarati»»»

Boris Johnson is ready to open the door to nearly three million Hong Kong citizens if China imposes a new security law that critics say would rob the territory of its autonomy. The Prime Minister, writing in The Times, has offered to make what he says would be one of the "biggest changes" in the hi»»»