| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| An Independence Day wish for Hong Kong |
| Gary J. Schmitt
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| 发表日期 | 2019-07-04
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | July is not the most pleasant month to be in Hong Kong. It’s hot and sticky. But the city has gotten even hotter with the continuing mass protests against Beijing and Beijing’s hand-picked chief executive, Carrie Lam.
On Monday more than half-a-million Hong Kongers hit the streets in support of democracy for Hong Kong on the very anniversary of the British government’s handover of the city to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. That evening, a segment of the protest turned violent, with students occupying and trashing the city’s legislative quarters.
The proximate cause for the protests is Beijing’s efforts, through Lam, to push through an extradition law that would allow any citizen of Hong Kong, or even anyone residing in or traveling through the city, to be detained by Hong Kong police and extradited to the mainland to stand trial there for one of more than three dozen types of criminal offenses as defined by China.
Reasonably enough, more than two million Hong Kongers, not trusting the Chinese justice system, have marched against the proposed measure and called on Lam to step down as well. So far, Lam has not stepped down and the bill has been tabled only temporarily. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Asia
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/independence-day-wish-hong-kong/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266084
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Gary J. Schmitt. An Independence Day wish for Hong Kong. 2019.
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