Uncertainties Loom Around Hong Kong Election

Riot police detain a group of people during a protest in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on May 27, 2020, as the city's legislature debates over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

After the so-called “national security” law for Hong Kong was approved by China’s rubber-stamp legislature the National People’s Congress (NPC), many are concerned over the future of Hong Kong’s elections, currently scheduled for Sept. 6.

U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo said on June 1 that the United States is worried that if Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam cancels the elections or postpones them “that there would be violence or something like that, which is just unfounded.”