Lecture 34: AntiTerrorism and Post911 Hong Kong

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Lecture 34 Anti-Terrorism and Post-911
Hong Kong

• 12th May 2003 (Monday)

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Structure of Lecture 34

• Introduction
• Impacts of 911 on Hong Kong
• Hong Kong SARG and Anti-terrorism
• Anti-terrorist Security Prospect of Hong Kong
  after 911
• Meaning of the Post-911 World Order in the
  Popular Perception of Hong Kong
• Conclusion
• Will Hong Kong be Affected by Future
  International Crises?

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PART I Introduction Impacts of 911 on Hong
Kong
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Globalization Types of Impacts on EVERY Region
in the World

• Globalization the Never-ending Debates
• Acknowledged Features
• Information Technology Revolution
• Interlocking Network of Modern Capitalism
• Inter-dependency of Nations ? Rise of
  Supranational Organizations
• Dr. Pun Ngai o

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The Common Impacts

• Political Impacts (Positive or Negative)
• Financial Impacts (Positive or Negative)
• Psychological Impacts (Positive or Negative)
• 911 as a Globalized Issue WHY?
• Centers of Influence
• Circles of Centers
• Hong Kong as a Hardcore Global Member or a
  Peripheral Global Member?

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Political Impacts

• Encouragement of Authoritarian Legislatures in
  Hong Kong?
• Patriotism and New McCarthyism in USA
• Basic Law Article23
• Revealing Hong Kongs Identity Void
• Not a US Sphere
• Not Completely Protected by the Chinese Shelter
• Where shall we stand after 911?
• Are we allowed to have independent American
  policy?

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Financial Impacts

• Financial Losses
• Domino Effect (Refer to Lecture 32)
• GDP Consecutive Reductions since 911
• Aviation, Insurance, Stock Market
• Does it Really Matter? Really Relevant? The
  Scapegoat Only?

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Financial Gains?!
?????

• Crisis Management of the Business Leaders?
• Upper-wind in the Competition with Singapore?
• Pan-Pearl Delta Integration after 911?
• Tourism after the 1012 Bali Bombing?
• Dr Tsang Iraqi War as an Economic Booster to
  Hong Kong WHY?!
• Moralistic or Amoralisitc?......

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Psychological Impacts

• Pro-Americanism
• The Newspaper Comments
• Anti-Americanism
• The Newspaper Comments
• Still the Same 4 Stages
• The Hyper-active Stage
• The Stereotypical Stage
• The Boring Stage
• The Ironical Stage

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PART IIHong Kong SARG Anti-Terrorism
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Assessment Mechanism of Hong Kongs Contribution
to Anti-Terrorism

• US-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992
• US-Hong Kong Policy Act Report (1st April 2002)
• US-Hong Kong Policy Act Report (31st March 2003)
• The Rare US Endorsement and the SARG News
  Summary
• Prime Importance of US-Hong Kong Relationship
  (Column A)
• 2000 October Removed from US Blacklist of
  Illegal Drug Production and Transit Regions

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Application of Anti-Terrorist Laws

• United Nations Security Council Anti-terrorism
  Resolutions 1267 and 1333
• Taking Steps to Implement Resolutions 1373 and
  1390
• United Nations (Anti-Terrorist Measures) Bill
  Passed by Legislative Council (July 2002)
• Controversial Promotion of Regina Yip, Secretary
  of Defense
• Opposition of the Legal Experts and Democrats
  WHY?
• Banned Illegal Assistance to 286 Terrorist
  Organizations
• The Basic Law Article 23 Footnote!
• Official Mourning and Anniversary Mourning of
  Tung Chee-wah

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Financial War against Terrorism

• Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
• Hong Kong as the Rotating Chairmanship during 911
• Adoption of 8 Special Recommendations All
  members should implement in the fight against
  terrorism and terrorism financing
• Regularly Direct Financial Institutions to
  Conduct Searches for Terrorist Assets Using US
  and UN Lists
• Found No Such Assets
• Increased Reports on Suspected Financial
  Activities
• 2000 6104
• 2002 (Jan-Oct) 8942

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Police Cooperation

• Container Security Initiative (Sept 2002)
• Customs and Immigration Cooperation
• 2002-2003 Military Representatives from the
  Pacific Command Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  Community Participated in the Hong Kong Police
  Force Bomb Disposal Officer Licensing Course
• Cooperation, why not?

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Why is Hong Kong Fully Cooperating with USA?
?????

• One-Country Two-Systems What is the Level of
  Autonomy in Anti-Terrorism?
• CAN Determine Local Bills
• CANNOT Determine National Defense and Diplomacy
  (e.g. Application of United Nations Resolutions
  Directly)
• Anti-Terrorism as an International Duty
• No Anti-Terrorist Bill as an International Joke
  (Regina Yip)
• Pressure from the US Consul?
• Pressure from Beijing?
• A Sense of Self-Performance of SARG/
• SARG Officials?

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Part III Anti-Terrorist Security Prospect of
Hong Kong after 911
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Hong Kong as a Safe Place

• Tung Chee-wah (after 911)
• Hong Kong is Safe from Terrorist Attack
• Regina Ip (Dec 2002)
• Hong Kong has No Terrorist Bases
• Internal Security Level Tightened during Crises
  (911, 1012, Iraqi War) as a Formality Only
• Really? Why or Why Not?
• What is the Level of Safety Compared with China,
  Taiwan and Singapore?
• Message from the Security Service of Eli Avidar,
  Israeli Consul General of Hong Kong

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Hong Kong as a Terrorist Financial Base?!

• Target of the Anti-Terror Bill
• Precedence of Hong Kong as a Drug Haven
• Drug Havens in East Asia Golden Triangle and
  Beyond
• Movies about 60s Hong Kong
• Triads in the Globalized Era
• 1 Hong Kong Indian Merchant and his 2 Colleagues
  were Persecuted in Paraguay for Terrorist
  Activities! (Nov 2002)

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Hong Kong as a Terrorist Military Transaction
Venue?!

• 3 Indian-Pakistani Individuals Purchased 4
  Stinger Missiles
• Syed Mustajab Shah
• Muhammed Abid Afridi
• Ilyas Ali
• In Exchange for 600kg Heroin 5 Tonnes Cocaine
  for Al-Qaeda (20 Sept 2002)
• Island Shangri-la Hotel
• HK-US FBI Preempted the Purchase
• Charged by US Court Dec 2002
• Why Hong Kong?!

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Local Imitators of Osama Bin Laden?!

• Hong Kong Laden (28 Sept 2001)
• Ultimatum to Tung Chee-wah
• Claimed Poisonous Food in Supermarkets
• Next Step Hotels and Food Courts
• Aim Down of the SARG Government
• Will Plan 911 in Hong Kong
• Negative Asset Saloon Workers
• Attached Poisonous Powders in Open Letters
• No Actual Movements
• Sentenced to 6 year 8 months Imprisonment
• What are the Implications?!

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Part IV Meaning of the Post-911 World Order
in the Popular Perception of Hong Kong
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A World of Drama

• 911, Iraqi War as if Hollywood Movies
• The Saddle Effect
• Required Instant Response
• Request Different Daily Updates
• Overestimation of Laden/ Iraq?
• Unrealistic Expectation of Sudden Changes in the
  International Arena
• Miscalculations of Business Decisions
• Miscalculations of Political Decisions
• Miscalculations of Personal Decisions
• After all, the World is Not Enough

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A World of Black and White

• Revolutionary Movies of Maoist China
• Artistic Process of Degrading Secondary
  Characters for the Main Character
• Where is the Bad Guy?
• Rise of Anti-Americanism as Fashion
• Romanticization of the Anti-Americans
• Excess Alienation between the Past and Present,
  the Truth and the Ideal, Ignorant and
  Knowledgeable
• NO WAR but why?

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A World of Their World

• Treatment of the Post-911 World Order in Local
  Media
• Sense of Disconnection from Local Politics
• Tourist Guide Coverage in the Discovery Channel
• http//pshweb01.881903.com/main/event/hot/hot20030
  314cr2bd.asx
• Reports on the Iraqi War the Unfinished Story,
  Who Bothers?

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Assigned Readings

• Main Text
• Eric Ma and Peter Yuen. 911 Hong Kong. Chinese
  University Hong Kong. (will be posted on the
  website)
• Supplementary References
• US-Hong Kong Policy Act Reports
• 2002 http//www.usconsulate.org.hk/ushk/pi/2002/0
  33101.htm
• 2003 http//www.usconsulate.org.hk/ushk/pi/2003/0
  40101.htm

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Conclusion Will Hong Kong be Affected by
Future International Crises?
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Hong Kong and International Order

• No Impacts?
• Normal Impacts in the Era of Globalization
  (Section I)?
• Revolutionary Impacts?
• How Can a Hong Kong Person Tackle the Impacts?
• YOU as a Case-study
• ME as a Case-study
• THEY as Cases-study

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Normal Impacts in the Post-911 International
Realignment

• World Economic Center Shift to Middle East in the
  Post-Iraqi Plan?!
• ? Waning of East Asian Economic Boom
• Sino-American Cooperation/ Conflict in the New
  Alignment?!
• ? Hong Kong as Part of China

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Revolutionary Impacts Rise of Non-state Actors

• Possibility of Hong Kong to Play Greater Roles in
  the Future as a SAR
• Basque Region in Spain as a Comparison
• Possibility of Outstanding Hong Kong People to
  Play Stronger Roles in the International Arena
• Implication of the SARS Crisis

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The End
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