Anti-terrorism and Post-911 Hong Kong
Key Terms: Globalization, Basic Law Article #23, US-Hong Kong Policy Act (1992),
United Nations (Anti-Terrorist Measures) Bill, Financial Action Task Force (FATF),
Container Security Initiative, “Saddle Effect,” SARS, “One-country Two-system”
Key Persons: Tung Chee-wah, Regina Yip, Margaret Ng, “Hong Kong Laden”
Key Places: Pearl River Delta, Basque, India, Pakistan, Paraguay
I. Introduction: Impacts of 911 on Hong Kong
Globalization: Definition and its Impacts on the World
Political Impacts:
Encouragement of Authoritarian Legislatures?
Revealing Hong Kong’s Identity Void?
Financial Impacts: Losses or Gains? Moralistic or Amoralistic?
Psychological Impacts: America, Love and Hate……
II. Hong Kong SARG and Anti-terrorism
Assessment Mechanism: US-Hong Kong Policy Act (1992) and Annual Report
The Gesture, the Propaganda, and the Further Gesture
United Nations Security Council Anti-terrorism Resolutions 1267/1333/1373/1390
“United Nations (Anti-Terrorist Measures) Bill” (2002)
Financial War against Terrorism: Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Police Cooperation: Container Security Initiative (2002)
Behind the “Full Cooperation” and “One-country, Two-system”
Beijing Pressure, US Pressure or Self-Performance?
III. Anti-terrorist Security Prospect of Hong Kong after 911
Hong Kong as a “Safe Place” – Why? True?
Hong Kong as a Terrorist Financial Base?
Precedence of Hong Kong as a “Drug Haven”
The Hong Kong Indian Merchant Persecution in Paraguay
Hong Kong as a Terrorist Military Transaction Venue?
The Indian-Pakistani Weapon Purchase for Al-Qaeda at Island Shangri-la
“Hong Kong Laden”: Local Imitators of Osama Bin Laden?
IV. Meaning of the Post-911 World Order in the Popular Perception of HK
A World of Drama: Interpreting the “Saddle Effect”
A World of Black and White: The Many Alienations, and the American Complex
A World of “Their World”: Disconnection, Tourist-Guide, Unfinished War
V. Conclusion – Will Hong Kong be Affected by Future International Crises?
Normal Impacts in the Globalized World Order
New Impacts in the International Realignment:
Middle East as the New Financial Center?
Sino-American Rapprochement/ Conflict?
Revolutionary Impacts: Rise of Non-state Actors, Rise of Hong Kong?
Questions: (1) Are the impacts of 911 on Hong Kong severe to you? (2) If 911
happened again next year in an even larger scale, what would be the likely response of
the Hong Kong community on a whole? Why?
Main Text: Eric Ma and Peter Yuen. 911 Hong Kong. Chinese University Hong Kong.
Supplementary References: US-Hong Kong Policy Act Reports
2002: http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/ushk/pi/2002/033101.htm
2003: http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/ushk/pi/2003/040101.htm)
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