Join us either online or in-person at the Australian Centre on China in the World for this one-off seminar.
DATE: Mon, 24 May 2021
TIME: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Abstract
The seminar will examine the PRC’s policy towards Hong Kong in recent years and its impact, in the context of the macro domestic and international environment as well as developments in Hong Kong. This will be analysed in terms of China’s international image, the international community’s responses, the Taiwan people’s support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, and the options of Hong Kong’s populace and the local pro-democracy movement. The latter will be viewed in light of the movement’s evolving objectives, leadership and internal differences in the years since 2013.
About the speaker
Joseph Yu-shek Cheng is a retired Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. During 1990 and 1991 he served as a member of the Hong Kong government’s Central Policy Unit. In 2008 and 2012 he was elected by the higher education sector to the committee that selects Hong Kong’s chief executive. He also served as the convenor of Power for Democracy, the group that coordinated the pro-democratic parties in Hong Kong’s 2019 district council elections. He is the founding editor of The Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences and the Journal of Comparative Asian Development. He continues to publish widely on political developments in China and Hong Kong, Chinese foreign policy and development in southern China. His recent books include China’s Foreign Policy (2016), Multilateral Approaches in China’s Foreign Policy (2018), Political Developments in Hong Kong (2020), and Evaluation of the C.Y. Leung Administration (2020).
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