Between Politics and Finance
Subtitle: Hong Kong's "Infinity War"?
Publisher: Ledizioni
Published: Sep 22, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9788855262460
Description: As the Covid-19 pandemic strikes hard, protests in Hong Kong appear to have abated. Distant seem the days when yellow umbrellas and balaclavas saturated global media. And yet, just like at the start of what has now come to be known as the 2019 “global protest wave”, Hong Kong remains at the frontline of political contestation worldwide. The protests against the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition law unearthed one of the main points of contention between Hong Kong and mainland China. Through the protests, China’s increasingly assertive stance has found a counterweight, revealing how important the city is to Beijing. Apart from Hong Kong’s role as a major global trade and financial area, China’s actions towards Hong Kong might also serve as a litmus test for Beijing’s ability to mediate and pacify its neighbourhood. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic risks further heightening tensions between the two. What makes Hong Kong special? To what extent have the protests exacerbated or eased over time? How will the city’s role in mainland China’s outward-looking plans change, if the protests continue?
Notes: Source title: Between Politics and Finance: Hong Kong's Infinity War? (Ispi Publications)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Paolo Magri; title: 1. Hong Kong and China: A Controversial Historical Relationship; title: Guido Samarani; title: 2. Political Contestation in Hong Kong: From Containment to Elimination; title: Alvin Y.H. Cheung; title: 3. The Fatality of Dissent: Comparing the 2014 and 2019 Hong Kong Protests; title: Éric Sautedé; title: 4. “Today’s Macau, Tomorrow’s Hong Kong”? What Future for “One Country, Two Systems”?; title: Victoria Tin-bor Hui; title: 5. Hong Kong: One Country, Two Systems, Three Challenges; title: Alicia García-Herrero, Gary Ng; title: 6. Is the Greater Bay Area China’s Future?; title: Dingding Chen, Junmin Wang; title: 7. Hong Kong in China’s Current “Opening-Up” Strategy; title: Alessia Amighini; title: Conclusions and Policy Recommendations for the EU; title: Alessia Amighini, Giulia Sciorati