Joephy Chan
Joephy Chan Wing-yan is a Federation of Trade Unions politician in Hong Kong, who is a member of the Legislative Council since 2021, representing New Territories South West. She is a former member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Lai Kok from 2016 to 2019.
Biography
During the 2015 Hong Kong local elections, Chan represented the Federation of Trade Unions in the Lai Kok constituency seat of Sham Shui Po District Council and competed with Federick Fung, a veteran member of the Legislative Council of the ADPL. In the end, she won 2,531 votes and take the seat, while former ADPL member Wong Chung-kei got 215 votes at the same time.After losing the district council election in 2019, she started her YouTube channel to comment on current affairs and became an internet celebrity; she also runs a YouTube channel with another unsuccessful district councillor candidate, Navis Ha Wing-ka. Her YouTube channel has more than 320,000 followers as of January 2026
Legislative Council
In November 2023, she led a protest outside the US Consulate in Hong Kong, stating that her party was not afraid of US sanctions.In February 2024, she criticized former Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, claiming he was not supportive of the Article 23 legislation. However, she was later criticized by other member from DAB.
Controversies
Fake news on COVID-19
In April 2020, Chan uploaded a video suggesting the first ever COVID-19 case may have emerged earlier and originated in the U.S. or Australia, not China. The video cited a coronavirus study by a research team at the University of Cambridge, which it claimed pointed to the origin of the virus as the either of these two countries. As of 28 April, the video had received over 380,000 views. However, an investigation by Hong Kong-based news agency FactWire found that the video took the study out of context and misrepresented its findings.Dr. Peter Forster, the expert who led the Cambridge research team, told FactWire that the purpose of the study was not to identify the origin of the virus, but rather to analyze how it mutates over time and spreads among humans. He also noted that early data showed most patients in the initial stage of the outbreak were in East Asian, suggesting that the virus was already spreading among the area during the early phase.
Pro-police comments
In September 2020, Chan and her friend, another pro-establishment figure, Navis Ha, commented on an incident involving a pregnant woman who was pushed down by police during a demonstration marking the first anniversary of the Prince Edward station attack. Chan referred to the woman as a "criminal woman" and questioned her conduct "after being interviewed by the media."On 29 September, The then Hong Kong Police Commissioner Chris Tang addressed the incident during a Yau Tsim Mong District Council meeting. He stated that during police operations on 31 August and 6 September at the Mong Kok site, a pregnant woman had been pushed down. Tang noted that the scene was very chaotic, and while some people shouted that a pregnant woman was present, not everyone could hear it.