Hong Kong Watch hosts fringe event at Conservative Party Conference 2022

Hong Kong Watch hosted a seminar, titled “Hong Kong as a canary in the coal mine”, at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham on 4 October 2022.

The discussion was chaired by Tom Randall MP, Member of Parliament for Gedling. Speakers included Benedict Rogers, co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch and Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, Nathan Law, former Hong Kong legislator, Lee Wing-Tat, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, and Juliet Samuel, columnist at the Daily Telegraph. They discussed the implications of the dismantling of Hong Kong’s freedoms for the rest of the world and the wider situation in China, the challenges the regime poses to the international rules-based order and to our own freedoms, and things that Britain and the international community can do.