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ABOUT THE MOTION: This House Believes China Is The New Imperial Power in Hong Kong
The situation in Hong Kong has become ever more serious over the past year. The Michaelmas before last, the Union hosted Martin Lee, Evan Fowler, Benny Tai and Nathan Law - the latter two of those are no longer able to visit the UK. Yet there are no simple answers for Hong Kong. How can it cohabit with and inside of a country which has strikingly different values and aims? Is Hong Kong suffering unjustly or is it as free and prosperous as any city can be in the 21st Century, a Century that will surely belong to China?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER (Opening for the Opposition)
Victor Gao, Esq. is Chairman of the Yale Law School Association of China. In the 1980s, he was an English interpreter for Deng Xiaoping. He was with the Chinese Premier’s official visit to Britain in 1985. He was the China Policy Advisor with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission around 2000. He is also a permanent resident of Hong Kong.
ABOUT THE CAMBRIDGE UNION: From its small beginnings as a debating society, the Cambridge Union is the oldest debating society in the world and the largest student society in Cambridge. The Union remains a unique forum for the free exchange of ideas and the art of public debate.