Hong Kong and Beijing: Getting Back to “Basics”

By Richard Bush

Richard Bush is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is the author of Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan, published last year by the Brookings Press.

Twenty years ago, when Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, Beijing agreed to administer the island according to the Basic Law, which would preserve the civil and political liberties of Hong Kong and create a path to universal suffrage for Hong Kong. However, in the intervening years, many believe Beijing has overstepped its mandate and the future of universal suffrage in Hong Kong is uncertain. The Cipher Brief’s Will Edwards spoke to Richard Bush, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute to learn more about the social, political, and economic dynamics that shape the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China.

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