Book contents
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Patriotism, Comprehensive Jurisdiction, Formal Allegiance: 2014–2017
- 9 Fundamental Rights and the 2019 Extradition Bill
- 10 The 2020 National Security Law
- 11 Aftermath
- Book part
- Index
Introduction to Part III
from Part III - 2014–2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Patriotism, Comprehensive Jurisdiction, Formal Allegiance: 2014–2017
- 9 Fundamental Rights and the 2019 Extradition Bill
- 10 The 2020 National Security Law
- 11 Aftermath
- Book part
- Index
Summary
Beginning in 2014 there was a series of controversies before violent protests erupted in connection with the Hong Kong Government’s 2019 Extradition Bill, which in turn led to the National Security Law of 2020. Often discrete events do not suggest a larger catastrophe until it is too late. The controversy over the State Council’s 2014 white paper, even the ‘Occupy’ Protests of that year, the strange ‘missing booksellers’ controversy in late 2015 and the 2017 West Kowloon Terminus issue each did not in themselves suggest the sweeping legislative changes that would take place by 2020.
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- Treaty for a Lost CityThe Sino-British Joint Declaration, pp. 175 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022