Cowed into silence. My guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new peoples party. Has hong kongs governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system . Dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, thanks for having me. Its a pleasure to have you. Now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kongs Legislative Council. What word would you choose to describe hong kongs political system . Its a revamped system, and i think its an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the Legislative Council chamber. And right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. The Chief Executive came to the Legislative Council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. So the legco right now is more focused on s
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. It seems there is no room for political opposition or dissent in todays hong kong. Legislative elections at the end of last year saw pro beijing candidates sweep the board. Pro democracy activists have either been arrested, forced into exile, or cowed into silence. My guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new peoples party. Has hong kongs governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system . Dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, thanks for having me. Its a pleasure to have you. Now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kongs Legislative Council. What word would you choose to describe hong kongs political system . Its a revamped system, and i think its an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the Legislative Council chamber. And right now, with the new legco,
Pro beijing new peoples party. Has hong kongs governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system . Dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, thanks for having me. Its a pleasure to have you. Now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kongs Legislative Council. What word would you choose to describe hong kongs political system . Its a revamped system, and i think its an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the Legislative Council chamber. And right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. The Chief Executive came to the Legislative Council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. So the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarr
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. It seems there is no room for political opposition or dissent in todays hong kong. Legislative elections at the end of last year saw pro beijing candidates sweep the board. Pro democracy activists have either been arrested, forced into exile, or cowed into silence. My guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new peoples party. Has hong kongs governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system . Dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, thanks for having me. Its a pleasure to have you. Now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kongs Legislative Council. What word would you choose to describe hong kongs political system . Its a revamped system, and i think its an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the Legislative Council chamber. And right now, with the new legco, we a
on beijing painfully exposed? dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen, for having me again. it s a great pleasure to have you back on the show. since we last spoke, it has become plain that the hong kong authorities are determined to push this article 23 reform of the basic law to create seven types of national security offence, and that will sit alongside and on top of the national security law passed in 2020. what on earth are the hong kong authorities so scared of that they need to keep making ever tougher national security laws? you know what s interesting? that you ask this question. because in the uk, you guysjust passed a national security act, which is more extensive and restrictive than what we have in hong kong. it updates your previous espionage laws by adding offence of foreign interference and provides your law agency and intelligence agencies with new powers. so it s very interesting that you would, of anyone, you would ask me that questio