Government Xi Jinping’s New Era and Hong Kong’s Declining Autonomy October 26, 2017 1 Written by Stephan Ortmann. During his 3 ½ hour speech at the beginning of the 19th Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping did not provide anything…
China From ‘Two Systems’ to ‘One Country’: China’s Re-centralization And Hong Kong’s Autonomy June 1, 2017 0 Written by Stephan Ortmann. For twenty years since 1997, Hong Kong has been ruled as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China…
Politics Contesting Visions of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law May 31, 2017 0 Written by M Y Karen Lee. The last British governor, Chris Patten, when praising the 'Hong Kong way of life', averred: 'It is the Rule…
Hong Kong Examining the One Country, Two Systems model November 30, 2014 0 The One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) model was initially proposed by Beijing as a unification arrangement for Taiwan. Despite failing to gain much traction in…
Hong Kong Redefining Hong Kong SAR July 22, 2014 2 Written by Daniel Garrett. While undeniably the most extensive authoritarian and arguably violent crackdown by the SAR government since the Handover, the local regime’s actions…
Hong Kong Designing Democracy in Hong Kong July 10, 2014 0 Written by Jennifer Eagleton. Having lived in “transitional” Hong Kong from just after the return to Chinese sovereignty in October 1997 to the present, I…
Hong Kong Hong Kong’s Fundamentalists July 8, 2014 1 Written by Jennifer Eagleton. Fundamentalist groups rigidly stick to core beliefs and maintain the “integrity” of their sacred text and practices to the exclusion of…
Hong Kong The Fallacy of CCP-designed “universal suffrage” February 3, 2014 0 Written by Zaijun Yuan. Hong Kong people have been struggling for genuine universal suffrage for decades. As for selecting Chief Executive, Article 45 of The…
Hong Kong Constitutional Impasse in Hong Kong January 30, 2014 0 Written by Michael C. Davis. The global media has recently been fixated on a number of seemingly intractable constitutional impasses that have given rise to…
Hong Kong Integration and Adaptation: Contrasting Hong Kong with Macao January 29, 2014 0 Written by Shiu Hing LO. Since the return of Hong Kong’s sovereignty from Britain to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on July 1, 1997…
