Andrei Chang, the founder of the influential military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence, is leaving Hong Kong because he fears his safety as a journalist and publisher can no longer be guaranteed in the city.
By the end of 2015, five publishers in Hong Kong had gone missing — all linked to Mighty Current, which produces books critical of the Chinese Communist Party — in circumstances that have led to suspicion that mainland authorities were involved. Concern was raised at the highest political level in Hong Kong as Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying saying it would be "unacceptable" and a violation of the Basic Law for the mainland to make an arrest in the Special Administrative Region, as is widely suspected in the disappearance of Lee Bo, the majority shareholder of Causeway Bay Books.
