https://www.scmp.com/rss/506583/feed Donald Clarke is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.” So said Boss Tweed, head of 19th century New York’s infamous Tammany Hall political machine. By the same token, it matters less who does the legislating or what they legislate than who does the prosecuting and judging. That was the point of a recent blog post of mine about Hong Kong’s national security law that attracted the attention of Ronny Tong in an op-ed in these pages. Regrettably, in the only part of my post Mr... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3093316/hong-kong-national-security-law-new-institutions-show-chinas-true?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3093316/hong-kong-national-security-law-new-institutions-show-chinas-true?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Jul 2020 01:00:19 +0000