resumo do que tem acontecido

jun23

The Hong Kong government, meanwhile, has recently been talking about ‘one country’ in terms of root and branch development. ‘Only with a deep root can leaves thrive’ goes the official slogan. That might be true, but biology also teaches us that it is the leaves that, through photosynthesis, produce the nutrients for the plant to grow. Will Beijing be willing to give Hong Kong the space to grow? Recent experience provides many reasons to be wary.

(texto de ensaio)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20419058231181287

autor sedeado no japão

ab23

Hong Kong’s economy is recovering, but its freedoms are not

https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-reopening-recovery-nsl-f4cb0cdf2ce415ad3056bf88fdfbb250

mar23

Hong Kong police have permitted a small protest march under tight restrictions in one of the first demonstrations to be approved since the enactment of a sweeping national security law in 2020.

Several dozen demonstrators on Sunday were required to wear numbered lanyards and were barred from wearing masks, as police monitored their march against a proposed land reclamation and rubbish processing project.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/26/hong-kongers-hold-first-protest-in-years-under-strict-rules

ago22

Hong Kong registrou sua queda anual mais acentuada na população, com especialistas culpando o declínio nas medidas rígidas de controle da Covid-19 e uma repressão política que tirou o brilho de um centro financeiro há muito anunciado como “a cidade mundial da Ásia”.

A população total da cidade caiu de 7,41 milhões de pessoas para 7,29 milhões, uma queda de 1,6%, informou o Departamento de Censo e Estatística na quinta-feira (11).

Esse é o declínio mais acentuado desde que o governo começou a rastrear os números em 1961.

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/hong-kong-tem-maior-queda-populacional-de-todos-os-tempos/

jun22

Ex-Hong Kong governor: China breached city autonomy pledge ‘comprehensively’

‘One country, two systems’ principle in agreement was supposed to provide a ‘high degree of autonomy’ to Hong Kong for 50 years, to 2047
Migration of talent from Hong Kong in recent years is a ‘huge loss’ for the city, Chris Patten, the city’s last British governor, says

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3182435/ex-hong-kong-governor-chinas-guarantee-citys-high-degree-autonomy

jun22

Rewritten Schoolbooks Say Hong Kong Was Never British Colony

• New materials will be used starting in September, SCMP reports
• City’s curriculum revamped as Beijing exerts greater control
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/rewritten-schoolbooks-state-hong-kong-was-never-a-british-colony#xj4y7vzkg

jun22
The Dismantling of Hong Kong
Since 2019, my hometown has slowly transformed into a brutal, unrecognizable place. Then came Omicron.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/the-dismantling-of-hong-kong.html

ma22

The 'can do' attitude that defines Hong Kong

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220515-the-can-do-attitude-that-defines-hong-kong

abr22

Hong Kong’s Diminishing Freedoms

https://www.state.gov/hong-kongs-diminishing-freedoms/

https://www.state.gov/2022-hong-kong-policy-act-report/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/1/unfounded-hong-kong-slams-us-uk-reports-on-declining-freedoms 

 In 2019 and 2020, Hongkongers witnessed—and, in many cases, participated in—one of largest and most exacting grassroots movements in the city’s history. Triggered by a proposed Extradition Bill and fuelled by a decades-long struggle for democracy and political freedom, the decentralised protest quickly seeped into the city’s everyday life. While some of the protestors confronted the police in black blocs, others participated in strikes, sit-ins, and economic boycotts.

To suppress the movement, the Hong Kong police deployed an alarming use of force and violence. To put an end to the movement once and for all, in June 2020 the Chinese and Hong Kong governments abruptly implemented the National Security Law (NSL), effectively rendering any expressions of dissent seditious and illegal. Since then, prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians have either gone into exile or have been imprisoned under the NSL; books penned by activists have been removed from the shelves of public libraries; key historical events and political concepts have been censored from textbooks; and around 60 advocacy groups and independent media outlets were forced to disband. Given the chilling effect of the NSL, many Hongkongers have chosen to emigrate.

(The Made in China Journal is a quarterly on Chinese labour, civil society, and rights. This project has been produced with the financial assistance of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), The Australian National University, and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. The views expressed are those of the individual authors and do not represent the views of CIW, Lund University, or the institutions to which the authors are affiliated.)