Mike Lee

I reckon, therefore, that the businesspeople must be persuaded to come around to our cause and your cause so that they understand that it is really in their interest too that human rights are preserved for everybody.

We resist every encroachment on any of our freedoms.

But what good is a deal if it is not honored? And the Hong Kong agreement is not honored.

It is a breaking of 'one country, two systems' and the Joint Declaration.

It is harmful to local business, to the international and business hub reputation of Hong Kong, and also to U.S. interests.

Not only losing money, losing one's freedom.

Advertisements are actually pulled from free media, to the extent that telephone calls will be made by the Chinese apparatchiks in Hong Kong to the advertisers.

I cannot believe that such an important bill would not have the express blessing of Beijing.

no American resident in Hong Kong is safe once this bill is passed.

Hong Kong is the key to China, and we must be able to keep what we still have.

Hong Kong is no longer a safe harbor for businessmen, professionals, NGO workers, activists--safe no more.

They want to destroy all hope for the future and to put despair in the people of Hong Kong.

We are of course eternally grateful to you and your members for conducting this hearing in a timely manner because time is not on our side.

This bill is terrible, and it can be stopped.

In fact the print media in Hong Kong, there is really only one Chinese newspaper which dares to criticize Beijing, and that's the Apple Daily.

It is not only about human rights. It is also about our city's future, our vibrant culture of business, and it's about rule of law and freedom of information.

We still have religious freedom. No doubt about it in Hong Kong. But we are concerned because things are happening in mainland China.

We need the international community to speak up before it is too late.

We are asking you to help us to preserve what is already given to us and promised to us by both the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.

we hope very much that more support from the international community... will keep Hong Kong press freedom alive.

The Hong Kong government uses this as a pretext.

We must insist that China, on these obligations and the promises made in the Sino-British Declaration...

China does care about this hearing. It does care about statements from this body.

I am very glad to hear that the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is in the pipeline.

that it will 'legalize kidnapping'--legalized kidnapping--that should be something that should concern everyone.