For Paul Harris, an explosive term ends in January 2022. „I will try to protect freedom in Hong Kong. I don’t know if I will succeed,“ he had told the British newspaper The Times when he was elected chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association for a year in early 2021. He was aware that he had attained this challenging position at a critical time: „It is a difficult time for the rule of law in Hong Kong,“ Harris told South China Morning Post.