research paper in politics

Student: Pui Yin Pete Ko

Student ID: KOPD1403

Topic: The Umbrella (revolution) tension between countries

Background:

Hong Kong, a city with past being a British colony, being occupied by Japan and now is a Special Administrative Region under China’s jurisdiction. With such a long history to this country, problems were hardly ever solved. As a part of China, people never believed that Hong Kong would have true democracy as citizens can have their own power to vote their governor. In the mean time, many issues came to the people of Hong Kong and they decided act, to occupy district Central to force Hong Kong government to respond. However, due to government’s non-respond and police department’s action, anger becomes rage. Occupying central becomes more and more district being occupied. In the end, court ordered clearance to zones being occupied. We called it Umbrella Revolution.

From my view, it is just peoples come together protest without objective and I’m going to talk about why Umbrella Revolution starts and what actually behind this revolution.

I chose this topic because I want people to know what’s behind the revolution. I believe in this political issue. China, US and UK all are trying to gain something as I would like to talk about in the paper.

Annotated bibliography

Patten, C. (1997, June). Governor's Speech at Farewell Ceremony of Hong Kong Handover 1997. Hong Kong, China

This speech contains many amazing quotes from Chris Patten the last governor in Hong Kong’s British Colony and UK’s thoughts.

Cheung, T., & Ng, J. (2014, November 21). China was very much against democracy in Hong Kong even before handover, says Chris Patten. South China Morning Post. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1645156/chris-patten-urges-us-act-firmly-beijing-over-bad-behaviour-hong-kong?page=all

This article explains why China disagree so much in getting Hong Kong into true democracy.

US State Dept Funding and Occupy Central, the Ties that Bind. (2014, January 10). Revolution News. Retrieved from https://revolution-news.com/us-state-dept-funding-and-occupy-central-the-ties-that-bind/#prettyPhoto

This article talks about the truth that behind the umbrella revolution, US is trying to affect the progress

'The Future of Democracy in Hong Kong' Hearing. (2014, November 20). In The Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from http://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/the-future-of-democracy-in-hong-kong

This is a recent hearing conference that discuss about can Hong Kong be able to have their democracy. During the conference, Chris Patten the last governor is also in attended in videoconference. I do have much reason to believe it is a affective source to my paper.

(Due to there are statements can be found from many members during the hearing, one or more site or document might be used)