Ningxin Li
The Chinese government has established an extradition bill and proposed it to the Hong Kong government. This bill was issued in February 2019 in order to establish a mechanism that can transfer Chinese criminals from Hong Kong back to China for investigations. However, Hongkongers have launched several protests and demonstrations against this bill and have raised other democracy concerns. The purpose of this research is to synthesize the theory of offensive realism, the theory of cultural hegemony, and social identity theory with a mediation method to help find the root causes of the Hong Kong-mainland conflict, as well as to illustrate potential solutions for resolving the conflict. Additionally, this paper will reveal how human nature and interest competition could have accelerated protests and conflicts. The author will choose the interest-based mediation method to provide alternative approaches for conflicting parties
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