A constitutional innovation: Never mind Hong Kong’s Basic Law, consider the context

[HKFP] - 01/12/2025

Well, I don’t suppose that it has anything to do with me, but we now have a response to the idea that planning to veto the government’s budget was not a crime, but a legitimate constitutional recourse outlined in the Basic Law. This comes in a China Daily piece by one Richard Cullen, an adjunct […]



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