Promises to keep: the Basic Law, the “Umbrella Movement,” and democratic reform in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
pp. 239-266
Author(s):  
Michael C. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Basic Law

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Simon N.M. Young
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
National Security ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The Law

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (NSL) was passed on June 30, 2020 by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC). It did not have immediate direct effect in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). After consulting the Committee for the Basic Law of the HKSAR (BLC) and the Government of the HKSAR (HKSARG), the NPCSC added the NSL to Annex III of The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Basic Law) before the Chief Executive of the HKSAR (Chief Executive) promulgated the NSL for local application. All this happened on June 30, enabling the NSL to enter into force at 11 p.m., just ahead of the twenty-third anniversary of the establishment of the HKSAR on July 1, 2020.

Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Ideal Condition ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Deficit Financing ◽  
The Ideal

Hong Kong’s divisive and fragmented political landscape provides the ideal condition for the proliferation of regulatory control. When the pressure on our government to spend more on housing, health care, and education is even greater than that in Singapore, and the Basic Law disallows deficit financing, then raising the regulatory burden is the only political solution available. Unfortunately, this will have far more damaging consequences on the economy. What is to be done? Can Hong Kong steer a path that allows it to fund the rising demand for public expenditures while promoting economic growth, so that the additional spending is economically affordable and politically feasible? That question will be addressed in this volume.

The emergence and transformation of self-determination claims in Hong Kong and Catalonia: A historical institutionalist perspective

Ethnicities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Lecours ◽  
Jean-François Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
One Country Two Systems ◽  
1997 Handover ◽  
The One

Using a historical institutionalist framework emphasizing the importance of transformative events, this paper seeks to explain the sudden emergence of self-determination claims in Hong Kong and their transformation into separatist ones in Catalonia. The paper argues that the inflexibility of the state in addressing moderate demands for regional autonomy has played a major role in the emergence and radicalization of these demands. In Hong Kong, the 1997 Handover from British to Chinese sovereignty was originally presented as an opportunity for self-governance under the principle of “Hong Kong People ruling Hong Kong” and the “One Country, Two Systems” formula. If Hong Kong nationalism was practically unheard of in the early years of the Handover, the unconciliatory attitude of the central government towards moderate demands for the actualization of the autonomy and democratization frameworks vested in Hong Kong’s Basic Law has directly contributed to the formation of today’s emerging self-determination movement. In Catalonia, the 2010 decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court to annul some articles of the reform to the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia and to interpret others narrowly represented a transformative event that took Catalonia onto the pathway of secessionist politics. The secessionist turn was then further fed by the on-going refusal of the central government to negotiate with the Catalan government, notably on the notion of a popular consultation on the political future of the Autonomous Community.

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