SELECTED WRITING
The Unofficial Story of the Handover of Hong Kong
Wall Street Journal - 22 April 2022
Chasing the King of Kowloon
The Atlantic - 19 April 2022
Inside China’s Audacious Global Propaganda Campaign
The Guardian - 6 October 2021
Opinion: Beijing played a good hand as COVID supercharged the China-US image war
The Sydney Morning Herald - 29 June 2021
Opinion: Hong Kong’s Last Gasp
The New York Times - 29 June 2021
The Closure of Apple Daily Marks the Ctart of a Cinister New Era for Hong Kong
The Guardian - 24 June 2021
By banning Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong, China is trying to rewrite history
The Guardian - 3 June 2021
Opinion: This is how much China’s Communist Party fears the power of public memory
The Washington Post - 3 June 2021
The arrest of Hong Kong activists is an assault on civil society
The Guardian - 6 January 2021
Books pulled from library shelves, songs banned...it’s the new normal in Hong Kong
The Guardian - 2 August 2020
Hongkongers face a Kafkaesque reality as censors outlaw the words of protest
The Guardian - 5 July 2020
China is reshaping the global news landscape and weakening the Fourth Estate
The Guardian - 25 June 2020
China is foisting an anti-sedition law on Hong Kong that will change it for ever
The Guardian - 22 May 2020
China Is Trying to Rewrite The Present - Foreign Policy
23 March 2020
Opinion: If Protests Are an ‘Infection,’ What Is China’s Cure?
The New York Times - 23 November 2019
If Beijing does not budge, the struggle for Hong Kong will last decades
The Guardian - 27 October 2019
Opinion: The Battle for Hong Kong Is Being Fought in Sydney and Vancouver
The New York Times - 13 August 2019
It’s as if Hong Kong is now unmoored, so fast have the old ways unravelled
The Guardian - 28 July 2019
Opinion: Hong Kong’s propaganda battle is playing out in the media — and in cyberspace
The Washington Post - 11 July 2019
Opinion: Hong Kong Has Nothing Left to Lose
The New York Times - 2 July 2019
Hong Kong is not China yet, but that feared day is coming ever nearer
The Guardian - 16 June 2019
Opinion: After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself
The New York Times - 2 June 2019
China wants us to forget the horrors of Tiananmen as it rewrites its history
The Guardian - 19 May 2019
Opinion: How Australia Became The Defamation Capital of the World
The New York Times - 5 March 2019
Hong Kong, My Vanishing City
Financial Times - 29 April 2022
REVIEWS
Louisa reviews podcasts for The Saturday Paper.
Firebomb and the legacy of hate
The Saturday Paper - October 2023
The Turning’s Room of Mirrors podcast
The Saturday Paper - August 2023