Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: The Future of Hong Kong

Thursday, October 7, 2021
REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Speakers
Stephen Vines

Journalist; Author, Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship

Andrew J. Nathan

Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Presider
Jerome A. Cohen

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; Founder and Faculty Director Emeritus, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU Law School 

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