Written by Maria Kisker | May 2021 | I. Introduction In the 17th century, British slave traders established an extractive economy on...

Written by Kristina Lozinskaya | Winter 2020 | Just a month before the start of what came to be known as the largest pro-democracy protest movement to have ever erupted in the troubled state of Hong Kong, Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, the man in charge of the island’s affairs, declared that “the political atmosphere in Hong Kong is changing for the better” and that “Hong Kong has set on to the right path of development” (Gan, Chung-yan 2019). Since then, multiple articl