Mark guest this week here in london is victor gao the chinese academic and lawyer and Vice President of the center for china and globalization how does he justify chinas catalogue of human rights abuses and the continuing pressure on hong kong. Welcome to conduct so thank you for having me china has always insisted that it will do anything to avoid chaos it shot a large number of its own people in beijing 30 years ago to do that but its failed comprehensively to address the protests in hong kong why maintaining stability has always been a pillow for chinas Development Since the late a 19 seventies. Its failed to do it in hong kong so how close a different ever since 1907 were told this part of china and china has practice to one country 2 systems so in hong kong the primary responsibility of maintaining law and order is resting on the shoulders of the Hong Kong Government and the chief executive carried the Hong Kong Government thats approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of
President of the center for china and globalization how does he justify chinas catalogue of human rights abuses and the continuing pressure on hong kong. Thank you for having me china has always insisted that it will do anything to avoid chaos number of its own people in beijing 30 years ago to do that but its failed comprehensively to address the protests in hong kong why maintaining stability has always been a pillow for chinas Development Since the late 1970 s. But its failed to do it in the whole different ever since 9097 this part of china that china has practiced a one country 2 systems so in hong kong. The primary responsibility of maintaining law and order is resting on the shoulders of the whole caught is our government and the chief executive carrot government thats approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent its doing beijings business not knowing if not doing a very well this is it its failed its failed to keep the hated extradition
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