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My Take | Hong Kong must reflect on its everyday racism to deepen ties with Global South
- While Hong Kong isn’t marred by the explicit racism seen elsewhere, that’s doesn’t mean it is absent – particularly for those of South Asian descent
- In his final column, the Post’s outgoing Asia editor contemplates what the city’s rocky race relations mean for its Southeast Asia, Middle East pivot
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Regrets? We’ve all had a few. As I look back on my seven-year stint with Hong Kong’s leading newspaper, one of my regrets is not having delved deeper into the heartbeat of the city.
In 2016, I joined the Post, part of what was then an embryonic team tasked with crafting original features and analyses on Asia.
Even amid the seismic protests of 2019, my coverage remained trained on the region’s reactions to Hong Kong’s upheaval.

I had various opportunities, even outside work, to immerse myself in the fabric of Hong Kong society, but I let them slip away, perhaps – in retrospect – due to a misconception that there were far more interesting issues to explore outside Hong Kong.

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