Sean Tracy

My Political Science International Relations class’ position paper research will be about Hong Kong

This class is no way a political science 101. It is not easy. I am somewhat interested in foreign affairs. But I didn’t realize there are so many political terms, foreign policy terms, types of governments, types of states, types of ideologies, on and on… Each of those terms have a meaning that is complex and sometimes abstract that didn’t make it easy to digest. On top of ready a designated textbook then take a quiz on each chapter, the professor also require separate foreign affairs and policy readings with so many pages. We are to make a case study on these readings. The last case study I did was about the history and the current intense situation of the South China Sea. The study required us to answer 8 questions, and we were to provide 3 paragraphs for each question. By brain was fried after completing that assignment.

Our Position Paper Research will be an extensive project which will be considered our project for the final. Since Hong Kong is my passion project, I decided to make this foreign policy proposal presentation project in this class also about Hong Kong. It won’t be easy task. It requires a lot of researches, writings, pictures, compiling, and organization. I will share the project on this site as soon as it is completed for the class.

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Summer 2020 is over

I just started my senior year of high school yesterday. Every year, I always feel sad when summer is over. But this year I have a different perspective. First, we all, in California, started shelter-in-place because of Covid-19 since March. We had to depart from our school friends and teachers 3 months before summer started. I was not fond of distant learning from home – very difficult to focus and be serious about homework. Then, my family had to forego our traveling plan. My mom planned to take the family to Hong Kong to see our relatives in June and, from there, we planned on travelling to Korea. Sadly, the pandemic wiped it all away. I could only reminiscing our summer vacation last year to Virginia, N. Carolina and to the continent of Australia.

I am happy to see my school friends and teachers again yesterday. Interactions with them are always more joyful than my classroom academics, even though we all had to wear masks. My county still imposes mandatory distant learning from home because of the increasing number of covid-19 cases. Since I go to a private school, the parents and school administrators voted for us to physically attend school with all the required sanitary measures and social distancing. With that, I will enjoy every minute of my senior year and, hopefully, this coming year will bring our country back to close to normal with the victory over the malicious covid-19.

I am hoping I will be able to go to my favorite Hong Kong next summer!

Sean Tracy
Vacaville, CA

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My Hong Kong Trip this summer canceled

My Hong Kong Trip this summer canceled

My mom was going to travel to Hong Kong in August to vote for the 2020 legislative council crucial election on September 6, 2020. She is an American citizen but still a registered voter in Hong Kong. She wanted me to go with her so that I could witness this controversial election between the pro-democracy camp and the pro-China camp. My aunt works in journalism and she could easier arrange some legislative council members for my interviewing them. My plan was to record the entire process and put it in my UTube channel. However, the Hong Kong government, with the direction of the Chinese government in Beijing, has decided to postpone the election by a year, citing that it is necessary because of the spike in COVID-19 cases. My mom was very disappointed. She was very passionate about including her one important vote for the pro-democracy candidates in her district. She was willing to be quarantined for 14 days before she could be free to see our Hong Kong family and then vote. Therefore, both of us will have to try again next year, providing that the Beijing government will let the Hong Kong people apply their voting rights as promised in the basic law. This cancelation of election is criticized by the Five-Eye countries and the European Union. They felt that the Hong Kong people’s voting rights were stripped away by the Beijing and Hong Kong government mainly because the polls were in favor of the pro-democracy candidates who would win majority seats.

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