JOSE B. JIMENEZ 3RD
AN estimated 2 million people recently marched through the streets of Hong Kong demanding the scrapping of a proposed extradition by their Legislative Council. Under the proposed law, an extradition request would be reviewed by the courts but it is Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, a position selected by a Beijing-dominated election committee, who would have the final decision. Protesters and critics fear that “the law would allow Beijing to seize anyone it likes who sets foot in the territory — from a normal resident to the chief executive of a multinational in transit — and whisk them off to mainland China on trumped-up charges.”