The Unseen Strings of Diplomacy in Hong Kong Hong Kong has been quietly pulling the strings behind the scenes in international diplomacy. Specifically, the city's unique role in hosting Track 1.
5 diplomacy – unofficial yet high level exchanges between governments that don't always have a formal mandate – has allowed it to become an unlikely hub for international dialogue.
Neville Lai's Trigrams Research Group sheds light on this understudied aspect of Hong Kong's history, highlighting the example set by its first postcolonial chief executive, Tung Chee hwa.