For week one, we're looking at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Let's see how politics functions in Hong Kong and what is causing the protests there.

Sources:

Hong Kong Basic Law: https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/index.html

Hong Kong's Return to China: https://www.britannica.com/topic/reversion-to-Chinese-sovereignty-1020544

Unravelling the mystery of the Missing Booksellers: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2016/04/unravelling-mystery-missing-booksellers-160426100856349.html

Legco - Hong Kong's weird democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDmjLn8q1E

Politics of Hong Kong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Hong_Kong

Episode 1: Hong Kong

The World Politics Podcast examines the political systems of different countries and regions. Each week we'll pick a place and dive deep into their voting systems, branches of government, constitution, and more.

Produced and written by Quinn Gilmore
Narrated by Jim Gilmore