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Humphrey Hawksley
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Editorial Director, Asian Affairs UK
London
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By Humphrey Hawksley Verified| Nikkei Asia Verified The track climbed skyward in the thinning autumn Himalayan air, through low-hanging clouds and around hairpin bends with sweeping views over a valley of fields and rivers. So high we went that it seemed there could be nothing more except mountain wilderness. Then, came twangs of music from rustic instruments and around a corner we drove onto a plateau lined with four-wheel-drive vehicles outside a gold-roofed Buddhist temple.
By Humphrey Hawksley Verified| Nikkei Asia Verified Passing through Indonesia back in 2019, I asked a longtime friend why Southeast Asians were so quiet when it came to supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Once an anti-Suharto activist, now a businessman, he rolled his eyes at my naivete. "Hong Kong has had it too good for too long," he said. "The rest of us in Asia put up with jackboot stuff every day. We learn to work around it."
By Humphrey Hawksley Verified| Nikkei Asia Verified The track climbed skyward in the thinning autumn Himalayan air, through low-hanging clouds and around hairpin bends with sweeping views over a valley of fields and rivers. So high we went that it seemed there could be nothing more except mountain wilderness. Then, came twangs of music from rustic instruments and around a corner we drove onto a plateau lined with four-wheel-drive vehicles outside a gold-roofed Buddhist temple.
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Asian Affairs UK
London, United Kingdom