Known as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, the bill would update a 1992 law that has entitled Hong Kong to trade privileges and other economic benefits not extended to mainland China.
But I think it is worthwhile to update what some of today's experts are saying about the South and its role in American democracy and history.
If we refuse to update our democratic technology, we may find the system is beyond repair; 2016 already risks becoming the worst year for democracy since 1933.
You have to update your view on Taiwan.Ryan Tierney Taipei, TaiwanSIR —I share your disappointment that Britain failed to negotiate in 1997 for a clear deadline for Hong Kong to become a democracy.
And now, as Congress, state legislatures and chagrined election officials consider updating the geriatric machinery of democracy, an unprecedented opportunity awaits Shoup Voting Solutions and other voting-equipment makers.
We hope they can cont on path to sustainable democracy August 19, 2013 Updated at 6.58pm BST 6.50pm BST Sara Hussein of the AFP files a harrowing report from Zeinhom morgue in Cairo, overwhelmed by decaying bodies, frustrated family members and angry onlookers: Outside a morgue in Egypt's capital, a woman mediates between her parents.
This series includes edited, updated material from my book, The Future of American Democracy: A Former Congressman's Unconventional Analysis (2002).
But normatively, though, it has shown that our ideas of solidarity, as with our ideas of democracy and governance, of rights and sovereignty, all need updating for a world beyond the nationalist multicultural state.
The political and economic instruments which have been developed and are now in place must be updated and used so that the Union can support the move towards democracy and the protection of Human Rights which has commenced in the region.
