February 7, 2020
The latest group of members to join the FCC is, as always, an interesting bunch. The Membership Committee meets regularly to go through applications and is always impressed by the diversity of people who want to join the Club.
Paul Geitner
I’m an editor at Bloomberg News, focused on explanatory...
February 4, 2020
Australia suffered a slight slip down the World Press Freedom Index in 2019, largely because its media ownership is concentrated in so few hands. Sian Powell explains why.
The front page of every newspaper across Australia was blacked out on October 21 as part of a protest against media restric...
January 29, 2020
Macau, ‘poster child’ of the One Country Two Systems policy, celebrated the 20th anniversary of its handover to China last month. José Carlos Matias reflects on the ‘fragile but hopefully resilient’ city.
The 20th anniversary of Macau’s handover from Portugal to China came at a critical juncture...
January 23, 2020
The Hong Kong Protests have impacted the city and its people for months. Five journalism students from the University of Hong Kong share what the unrest has revealed to them and how their lives have been changed.
Hongkonger Michelle Wong is in her fourth year studying English and translation, wit...
January 21, 2020
The poetry and art of Liu Xia, the widow of Chinese dissident and Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was shared by the first Western writer to interview her when she arrived in Germany having been released from house arrest in Beijing.
Nick Frisch was writing for The New Yorker when he met Liu Xia, w...
22 Jan 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
Policing Hong Kong’s Police: How to Restore Trust
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Panel
1st Floor
After seven months of protests, the Hong Kong Police Force has become villainised by a large swath of Hong Kong society. Sympathisers sa...
21 Jan 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK
Like Ice, Like Fire: The Art of Liu Xia,
with Nick Frisch
SPEAKER
Nick Frisch
Media Fellow, Yale Law School
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – Address
1st Floor
Liu Xia, born to a Communist cadre's family in 1961 in Beijing...
9 Jan 2020 08:30 AM
BREAKFAST TALK
A Conversation with Professor Niall Ferguson
SPEAKER
Niall Ferguson
Historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
Thursday, January 9, 2020
8:30am for 8:45am - Breakfast
9:15am - Address
1st Floor
Historian, author, filmmaker, p...
December 19, 2019
This op-ed on press freedom in Hong Kong, written by the club’s president, Jodi Schneider, will appear in the print edition of the LA Times on December 20. It is available to view on the LA Times website here.
Two deaths. Hundreds injured. More than 10,000 rounds of tear gas and half as many rubb...
4 Dec 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK
How To Be A Dictator
SPEAKER
Frank Dikötter
Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – Address
1st Floor
What does it take to become a dictator? Modern day leaders with auth...
