Tim Pit Hok Yau is a first-year PhD student in the Asian Studies Department. He completed his Bachelor of Journalism in Hong Kong, and his commentaries can be found in Hong Kong Animal Post, Hong Kong Free Press, Inmedia, Ming Pao, and South China Morning Post.
From the American election to authoritarian crackdowns in Hong Kong, Hannah Arendt’s thought is more relevant than ever, writes PhD student Tim Pit Hok Yau.
![An enlarged image of the text of one of Hannah Arendt's manuscripts, which reads: "...incapable of either devising new rules for the handling of foreign affairs which had become global affairs or enforcing a Pax Romana on the rest of the world. Its political narrowness and shortsightedness ended in the disaster of totalitarianism whose unprecedented horrors have overshadowed the ominous events and the even more ominous mentality of the preceding period. Even scholarly inquiry has almost exclusively concentrated on Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia at the expense of their less harmful predecessors. Imperialist rule, except for the purpose of name-calling, seems half-forgotten, and the chief reason why this is deplorable is that its relevance for contemporary events has become rather obvious in recent years. Thus, the controvery [sic] about the United States' undeclared war in Vietnam has been conducted from both sides in term of..."](https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/arendtopinion.2e16d0ba.fill-340x238-c100.format-webp.webp)
