The Future of Democracy in Hong Kong

ChinaFile Presents Anson Chan and Martin Lee in Conversation

Veteran Hong Kong political leaders Anson Chan and Martin Lee describe some of the core values—such as freedom of the press—that they seek to maintain as Beijing asserts greater control over the territory seventeen years after Britain handed it back to China on the condition that universal suffrage (one man, one vote) be granted by 2017. Chan and Lee spoke to a public audience gathered at the Asia Society New York headquarters on March 31.