First of all, I would like to point out the reality that a lot of the Chinese officials who are involved in human rights violations have not been sanctioned or punished by the international community. Not only that, they have also been able to send their kids abroad for further education, or even to stay behind to operate a business abroad. When they fly out of China, they are given VIP treatment. It seems as though they have not been really sanctioned or punished by the international community.
I consider sanctions to be an effective means—of course, one of many means—to discourage these officials from doing what they have been doing. The reason that they are sending their family members and kids abroad is that they themselves feel the insecurity inside China; therefore, they have to find a safe haven abroad. If they are sanctioned, I'm quite sure it will have an impact on them.
I consider the interpretation or amendment of the Hong Kong basic law by the standing committee of the national congress of China to be damaging, not only to the Hong Kong rule of law but also the global rule of law. This interference by the national congress is without any due legal process, and as a result, it will disrupt and eventually also violate entirely the Hong Kong basic law.
As a result of that, I believe the pan-democratic people, as well as all the young people, who have a very strong attachment to Hong Kong, will be forced to take even more radical action in order to get their voices heard.
Before, they used to take a very rational approach and used a very peaceful means in expressing themselves. If this is going to be the trend, if the international promise is going to be broken and disrupted by the Chinese government, then the Hong Kong people, especially the young people, will have no other means to voice their opinion but to be even more radical in the future.