Happy Year of the Rat! Please tip your waitress

Beijing is celebrating the Lunar New Year by cracking down on satire. This is not a good sign in a presumptive superpower.

A pro-democracy party says the Hong Kong government kicked it out of a Lunar New Year fair because political materials were found at its stalls. With the Year of the Rat officially beginning on Jan. 25, maybe it’s time for the aspiring new world order to stop indulging the reflexive arrogance bred by its assumed omnipotence and corruption-secured impunity and stop persecuting its critics, writes Lisa Van DusenPhotograph courtesy of Facebook/League of Social Democrats

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 22, 2020

It’s easy not to have mixed feelings about the Chinese Lunar New Year. It’s a celebration of family, with three million homecoming trips expected in this year’s Chunyun, the lar...

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