Brendon Hong

Brendon Hong is the pseudonym of a longtime contributor to The Daily Beast based in Hong Kong.

One of the World’s Most Watched TV Shows Loves Blackface

CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala, which is seen by more than a billion people most years, keeps featuring performers in blackface.

Brendon Hong

DYSTOPIA

Inside Burma’s Sudden Coup: Phones Down, Goons at the Door

Some hid from the military and scraped pro-democracy flags off their car windows while others worked to connect citizens to Bluetooth apps as Signal and Telegram went down.

Brendon Hong

CONTAGION

Can China Prevent Next Animal-to-Human Pandemic?

With the origins of COVID-19 still murky, and a long history of viruses jumping from animals to humans inside China, conditions are ripe for another disaster.

Brendon Hong