https://www.scmp.com/rss/321888/feed Jason Buhi teaches constitutional law at the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Florida. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com At a recent press briefing addressing Hong Kong’s summer of protest, Beijing’s spokesman repeatedly stated that “violence is violence” – a simplistic aphorism on a par with “one country, two systems” in terms of capacity for obscuration. There are fundamental differences between violence against property, physical violence, and institutional violence. Violence against property is vandalism and results in money damages. Physical violence occurs when someone uses or threatens to use their body or... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3021000/hong-kong-has-seen-three-kinds-violence-all-facets-one-fundamental?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3021000/hong-kong-has-seen-three-kinds-violence-all-facets-one-fundamental?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:00:14 +0000 The saga of Hong Kong implementing China’s 2017 national anthem law has coincided with Americans openly reexamining their policies on national anthem etiquette following the headline-stealing protests of National Football League players. As in other areas, the two countries make for a fascinating comparison. San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited a controversy by first sitting down, then taking a knee during the national anthem throughout the 2016-2017 football season, to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2181966/national-anthem-debate-led-america-reaffirm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2181966/national-anthem-debate-led-america-reaffirm?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:00:45 +0000 The Portuguese influence on Hong Kong is deeper than generally known. Portuguese traders and missionaries transformed Macau into the locus of East-West intercourse three centuries before Hong Kong was colonised. The British officers who led that operation (and the Portuguese clerks who aided them) departed Macau in 1841. In 1985, the Hong Kong Legislative Council adopted functional representation based on a model practised in metropolitan Portugal since 1933 – a legacy that remains to this... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1889714/what-hong-kong-and-macau-can-learn-portuguese-autonomous?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1889714/what-hong-kong-and-macau-can-learn-portuguese-autonomous?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:02:37 +0000