Imogen Liu has written an op-ed on China’s new National Security Law for Hong Kong, published in The Interpreter at the Lowy Institute. Imogen provides a geo-economic, geopolitical and state capitalist reading of the new legislation, analysing its broader significance vis-à-vis the use of national security as an instrument of economic policy.
Titled ‘The economics of national security in Hong Kong’, the piece argues that the legislation shows how national security has evolved as a policy issue no longer exclusive to the realm of military defence, but of increasing importance to the state’s economic arsenal globally. The op-ed is inspired by fieldwork Imogen conducted last year in Hong Kong during the protests.
