In an interview last Friday with the independent Hong Kong media outlet InMediaHK, a former journalist for the Cantonese language service of the American broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA) reflected on three years in Taiwan after Hong Kong’s media crackdown forced her relocation. Despite RFA’s closure this year due to sharp funding cuts by the Trump administration, she views dispersing Hong Kong journalists globally as beneficial for covering diaspora communities. The journalist, who used a pseudonym for the interview, was the first RFA Cantonese reporter stationed in Taiwan and witnessed the closure of major Hong Kong outlets like Apple Daily and Stand News. In mid-2025, she submitted an application for Taiwan residency, but told the outlet she did not know whether she would continue working as a journalist or continue writing news about Hong Kong.
