Rafe Fletcher: How democracy becomes an inert autocracy

Rafe Fletcher: How democracy becomes an inert autocracy

Rafe Fletcher is the founder of CWG. Around half of Hong Kong’s non-Chinese foreign residents left between 2021 and 2024. I was one of them, departing for Singapore in the summer of 2022. The exodus was largely driven by suffocating Covid rules and the 2020 National Security Law, which eroded much of Hong Kong’s remaining independence. I’ve been back to Hong Kong several times since the end of self-imposed Covid isolation in early 2023. Its dyna…