I am currently a high school senior, class of 2021. My favorite extracurricular activities are martial arts, volleyball and cross country. I earned my blackbelt in martial arts after 8 years of training since I was 7 years old. Now I am officially an instructor to the school. I am in the varsity teams of both volleyball and cross country in my school. I had been a trumpet player for my school’s orchestra and jazz band for 7 year. I grow up in the same Christian school since I was 4 years old; I know I will miss it dearly after my graduation next summer.

With all the recent ongoing interlinked events which are happening in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, and America, I have developed a great interest in researching what is going on in Hong Kong. My mom was raised in Hong Kong, and I still have close relatives who are still living them. I had been there several times, and I have always fallen in love with the vibrant, dynamic, and prosperous city. In June 2019, hundreds and thousands of Hong Kong youngsters started a tremendous movements triggered by the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill that would have allowed the Hong Kong Government to send criminal suspects to China to stand trial. That bill would lead to erosion of the city’s judicial independence. I was amazed by the youngsters, mostly my age or a little older, who demonstrated their courage and intelligence, risking their bodies and lives to initially demonstrate peacefully for the withdrawal of the proposed bill. When the Hong Kong government would not react to the protesters’ demand, the protests escalated into violence between the protesters and police. This 6-month anti-extradition movement rocked the whole world. Hong Kong shares the same values of freedom like America. I am standing with the Hong Kong youngsters who are longing for restoring their freedom after the Chinese Communist Party’s rigor erosion in Hong Kong’s autonomy as promised by the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984.