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Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Beijing’s Broken Promises
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 26, Number 2, April 2015
- pp. 101-110
- 10.1353/jod.2015.0027
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
China’s “one country, two systems” model elaborated in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the 1990 Hong Kong Basic Law promise Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy, universal suffrage, human rights and the rule of law. The June 2014 Chinese White Paper on the “one country, two systems” model and the August 2014 NPC Standing Committee decision on democratic development undermined both the rule of law and Hong Kong’s democratic development. This essay argues Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” model is broken. A high degree of autonomy and the rule of law can no longer be maintained without democracy.
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