Securitization of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

In recent years, the city many hoped would help democratize China has instead become a research setting in which to study China’s increasing intolerance of dissent.  Since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s treatment of Hong Kong could be divided into three stages: non-intervention, intervention, and securitization. If the July 1 march in 2003 is a watershed that marked Bei...