Two Key China-Related Events Tomorrow

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Place: Online via Zoom.

China is using COVID-19 to crackdown on the Hong Kong democracy fighters movement within Hong Kong. Martin Lee, founder of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, has been arrested and at the age of 82 faces imprisonment by PRC surrogates in the “Special Administrative Region.”

FPA President Ian Williams will interview Mr. Lee by Zoom in Hong Kong.

Martin Lee is the founder of the Hong Kong Democratic Party and served as an elected member of the Legislative Council for more than two decades. He was a member of the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law Hong Kong’s constitution), was chairman of the Bar, and is known as the “Father of Democracy” in Hong Kong for his tireless defense of freedom, human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong over the last four decades. Mr. Lee wrote about his arrest in an op ed in The Washington Post on April 21.

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Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Place: Online via Zoom.

China, the country hit earliest by the virus, shows real signs of recovery. Will it be a lone bright spot as other major economies struggle and will China once again be a key driver of global growth? And can it use the crisis to push its global soft power?

Dexter “Tiff” Roberts will discuss his new book The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, and why it argues that China’s future is deeply uncertain.

OPC Past President William J. Holstein will moderate.

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