Robert Chow

Robert Chow Yung (; born 22 April 1950) is a Hong Kong journalist and media personality who is a former RTHK radio host. He is currently the spokesman of the pro-Beijing conservative Alliance for Peace and Democracy and founder and leader of the Beijing-approved Silent Majority for Hong Kong movement.

Early life Chow studied up to the Form Five level of school education.

In 1967, at the age of 17, Chow started his career as a reporter for the now-defunct local tabloid The Star where his senior colleague Kevin Sinclair described him as a "mere boy". In 1970, he was made a news editor at The Star.

Media and communications career In 1974, Chow started working in the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and became chief information officer in 1980.

In 1985, he became the editor-in-chief of The Standard, and worked there until the 1990s. He was asked to leave RTHK in 2011 together with Ng Chi Sum, another media personality.

Silent Majority for Hong Kong In August 2013, Chow founded the Silent Majority for Hong Kong organisation as a focus of opposition to the Occupy Central democratic movement and is the organisation's leader. He also maintained that it was acceptable to distribute lunch boxes to groups joining the parade as a token of gratitude.

British right of abode In 2014, Chow was found to be in possession of right of abode in the United Kingdom, though he held no British passport. Some considered this in conflict with his frequent claims of being a patriotic Chinese citizen. He initially stated that it was not possible to voluntarily renounce the right of abode, acquired in the 1990s as part of the British Nationality Selection Scheme, but later backtracked, saying that he was working with a lawyer to abandon it.

"White terror" tactics In September 2014, Chow announced that his organisation had set up a telephone hotline for informants to report the names of schools permitting students to be absent from class during the Occupy Central protests. It was widely condemned by the public of Hong Kong and portrayed as white terror, a persecution tactic similar to those employed by the Kuomintang in Taiwan, including asking people to betray their close friends or family members.