The New National Security Law in Hong Kong doesn’t Mean Security at all (Global Connections)

It’s the PRC’s way of taking greater control. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guests for this episode are Michael Davis and Tin-bor Victoria Hui. Michael Davis and Tin-bor Victoria Hui will help us understand the struggle in Hong Kong and the intention, meaning and effect of the new Security Law which the PRC has imposed on Hong Kong.

Michael C. Davis (Chinese name is the Professor of Law and International Affairs at India’s O.P. Jindal Global University, a Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Until stepping down in 2016, he was professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong, where he remains a non-resident senior fellow in the Centre for Comparative and Public Law.

Michael’s books include Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong (1990), Human Rights and Chinese Values (1995), and International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (2004). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and political science. Before moving to Hong Kong, as an Hawaii attorney, he worked for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation on indigenous rights and land use issues.As a public intellectual and human rights advocate in Hong Kong, he was a founder of both the Article 23 Concern Group and the Article 45 Concern Group which led massive protests for human rights in 2003 and 2004.[3] His human rights work has also included a nearly two decade engagement on the Tibet issue and on human rights and development issues across Asia.

Victoria Tin-bor Hui is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and she is a Faculty Affiliate, Center for Civil and Human Rights. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and her B.SSc. in Journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Victoria’s core research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history. She is the author of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has also published “Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics” in International Organization, “Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History” in the European Journal of International Relations, “The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights” in The Journal of Political Philosophy, “Building Castles in the Sand” in the Chinese Journal of International Politics, “History and Thought in China’s Traditions” in the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and book chapters “How Tilly’s Warfare Paradigm Is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-Making,” “Cultural Diversity and Coercive Cultural Homogenization in Chinese History,” “The China Dream: Revival of What Historical Greatness?”, “Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?”, “The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System” and “Problematizing Sovereignty.”

She also studies contentious politics. As a native from Hong Kong, she has written “Will China Crush the Protests in Hong Kong? Why Beijing Doesn’t Need to Send in the Troops” in Foreign Affairs and “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: The Protest and Beyond” in the Journal of Democracy. She also maintains a blog on Hong Kong https://victoriatbhui.wordpress.com. She has extensively commented on Hong Kong politics in the media including the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, ChinaFile, ABC, the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian, Bloomberg, Sky News, NPR, Vox, and the Christian Science Monitor.

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