After three monthsfof mass protests, Hong Kongisinastateo crisis.Demonstrations against a controversial proposal to allow extradition to Mainland China have escalated into a much broader public protest against Beijing’s increased interference in the “high degree of autonomy” that was promised when Hong Kong transitioned from a British Colony to a Special Administrative Region of China. Academics who have lived and worked in Hong Kong will analyze the underlying causes of the unrest and the implications for “One Country, Two Systems” as a form of regional autonomy.

Moderator:

Cathryn Clayton, Professor, Chair of the Asian Studies Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Speakers:

Carole Petersen, Professor, School of Law UHM, “Autonomy as a Form of Internal Self-Determination? Competing Views of the Sino-British Joint Declaration

Alison Conner, Professor, School of Law UHM, “The Extradition Bill and China’s Criminal Justice System”

Charles Booth, Professor, School of Law UHM, “Extradition, the Business Community, and the Flow of Capital”