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Oct
Guest Post: The International Law Case for Democracy in Hong Kong
[Alvin Y.H. Cheung is a Visiting Scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute at NYU School of Law.] After two years of increasingly acrimonious debate over Hong Kong’s electoral reforms for 2017, the city’s pro-democracy movement has finally attracted global concern. A consistent theme of international responses has been that Hong Kong’s democratisation should occur in accordance with the Basic Law, the...