Harvey Stockwin
Harvey Stockwin has been reporting and analysing Asian developments since 1955. Currently he broadcasts a weekly 15-minute talk “Reflections From Asia” for Radio Television Hong Kong, contributes to the Japan Times, and is the East Asia correspondent of The Times Of India.
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The Qian Qichen Op-ed: Official Discontent or Just one Man’s Opinion?
In one of his farewell interviews with the televised Wall Street Journal Report, retiring Secretary of State Colin Powell once again made the claim that Sino-American relations are now in
China’s Democratic Triangle
China's behavior toward Hong Kong warrants the attention of those who wish to understand Chinese efforts toward reunification across the Taiwan Strait. Witness, for example, the limited input afforded Hong
China Vetoes Hong Kong’s Democratic Hopes
China has moved to effectively veto Hong Kong's expectations of constitutional progress towards a greater degree of democracy or, at the very least, to delay indefinitely any such advance. In
INDIA AND CHINA, REPEATING OLD HABITS
By Harvey Stockwin Relations between China and India pass periodically through a vast gamut of emotions. These range, on the Chinese side, from superciliousness over India's addiction to democracy and
ARTICLE 23 STIMULATES HONG KONG’S PEOPLE POWER
By Harvey Stockwin First and last, the July 1 protest march, in which half a million Hong Kongers marched three miles in orderly nonviolent protest, despite hours of waiting in
NO GLASNOST YET FOR THE VICTIMS OF SUBMARINE 361
By Harvey B. Stockwin It is a remarkable fact that numerous observers of the Chinese scene, anxious to see progress even where there is little at hand, have hailed
SARS: SPREADING UNREST
By Harvey Stockwin The spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--the SARS virus--throughout China is a phenomenon that had previously been denied by authorities and had gone unreported. But the penetration
SARS CRISIS: HONG KONG SUFFERS FROM CHINA’S COVERUP
On April 17, twenty-two weeks after the first outbreak of a previously unknown type of atypical pneumonia in Guangdong province, the highest political decision making body in China, the nine
CHINA’S HEALTH CRISIS: SYSTEMIC INCOMPETENCE OR MIDDLE KINGDOM ARROGANCE?
HONG KONG An ugly new strain of atypical pneumonia has medical scientists worldwide working overtime. They are trying to discover why a small but growing number of patients in many
ARTICLE 23: TIGHTENING THE SCREWS ON HONG KONG
It is too soon to assert that Hong Kong's freedoms, ostensibly guaranteed in the handover from British to Chinese sovereignty, are under sustained attack. But it is not too soon
THE HONG KONG-TAIWAN-CHINA TRIANGLE
While recent Pentagon and Congressional reports on Sino-American relations noted the military trends threatening war between China and Taiwan, too little attention is paid to the political underpinnings of China's