Hong Kong again. A familiar skyline.Today, it is still possible to take a boat across the impressive Victoria Harbour, and land right next to the Hong Kong Convention Centre.

Not for long. The police will soon take over - and block access to this beautifully set conference hall from water and from land. Already, all pedestrian bridges near the Convention centre feel like prisons. White nets have been put up - as if WTO protesters were birds in a zoo ...

This is my third trip to Hong Kong this year. My name is Daniel, and I coordinate trade work at Greenpeace International. This time, your trade ministers will be joining me. In the next few days, they will arrive for the summit of the World Trade Organziation, WTO.

Governments will aim to use their meeting here to push forward with trade liberalization. I, and a Greenpeace team of 15 from China and around the world, are here, to make that difficult for them - as difficult as we can manage. On why and how, more on these pages in coming days....

Hong Kong is a wonderful city. I will never tire of that ride across the harbour. Still, this city has given me a headache all year long! There can be no other place on earth, where the belief in free trade is so strong. Free trade is, as government ads on TV right now remind people as part of a "Welcome the WTO" publicity campaign, what Hong Kong is made for and of. Free trade made Hong Kong rich. But there is a dark side to this success. Hong Kong is, for example, also a freeport for the world's toxic trash - as regulations are lax.

More on that on www.greenpeace.org - and in the coming days!