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Zweig advises police to tone things down and reopen dialogs
Running battles between police and protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University featured raging fires, tear gas and flaming vehicles. By the evening tens of thousands of demonstrators marched toward the university to aid those stuck in the campus, leading to more clashes throughout the night. Hong Kong’s ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2019/david-zweig-advise-police-tone-things-down-and-reopen-dialog
Financial Times: Hong Kong Democracy Movement Loses Ground as China Clamps Down
  Financial Times featured Prof David Zweig, IEMS Faculty Associate, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of the Division of Social Science at HKUST, in an article on the 2018 Legislative Council By-election. Prof David Zweig commented on its low ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/zweig-hong-kong-democracy-movement-loses-ground-as-china-clamps-down
RTHK3: Efforts to sack Occupy Central leader Benny Tai
Hong Kong legislator Junius Ho says the Law Professor who led Occupy Central should be removed from his post as he has been spreading his ideas of civil disobedience for years and misleading the students. The lawmaker also blasted Tai for criticizing the rule of law in Hong Kong despite being a legal scholar. On a ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/zweig-rthk3-efforts-sack-occupy-central-leader-benny-tai
Center for Strategic and International Studies: The Future of Democracy in Hong Kong: A Conversation with David Zweig
When Carrie Lam, Beijing’s favorite, won 2017 Hong Kong’s chief executive election, many questions regarding city’s future and the possibility of political reforms were raised. IEMS’ David Zweig explained how the election process works in an episode of the "China Power" podcast ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/zweig-csis-future-democracy-hong-kong-carrie-lam-ce-election
Zweig dissects Xi's message to Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
IEMS' David Zweig interpreted the meaning of Xi Jinping's speech in Hong Kong on July 1. Professor mentioned to Bloomberg:"Xi sent a clear sovereign message: ‘You belong to us, and your future is with us’. Maybe it will finally put to sleep the democrats’ unfailing belief that somehow Xi ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/zweig-xi-says-hong-kong-profit-china-not-defy-bloomberg
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