Vanochtend kwam China’s staatsveiligheidswet voor Hong Kong zoals lang verwacht in actie. De aanleiding voor de grote politieactie? De oppositie wilde een meerderheid behalen in de wetgevende raad (LegCo). Voorverkiezingen moesten helpen bij de beperkingen van een districtenstelsel. Volgens de telling van Holmes Chan zijn er 53 politici en activisten uit het pro-democratiekamp gearresteerd. Peking …
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Summarising Zhao Dingxin’s lessons from 1989 for the Hong Kong protests: protest ecology and conflicting state legitimation
Talking about the on-going protests in Hong Kong, pundits love to invoke the 1989 Movement that famously centred around Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I myself have previously argued that it might be more useful to compare the overall effect on Hong Kong of the ‘Hard Had Revolution’ to the effect that the February 28 Incident …
The Hard Hat Revolution will not be Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square, it might be its February 28 Incident
Tension had been building for a long time. The former colonial power had returned the island to China a while ago already, but rather than act as happy patriots, the local inhabitants were increasingly chafing under what they saw as a breakdown in orderly government, encroachment on their economic opportunities, and discrimination against locals in …