1/4: Beijing remain quiet on the Prigozhin episode: 1/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere by Mark L. Clifford
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🗓️ 25 June 2023
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1/4: Beijing remain quiet on the Prigozhin episode: 1/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere by Mark L. Clifford
https://www.amazon.com/Today-Hong-Kong-Tomorrow-World/dp/1250279178
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World tells the complete story of how a city once famed for protests so peaceful that toddlers joined grandparents in millions-strong rallies became a place where police have fired more than 10,000 rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition at their neighbors, while pro-government hooligans attack demonstrators in the streets. A Hong Kong resident from 1992 to 2021, author Mark L. Clifford has witnessed this transformation firsthand. As a celebrated publisher and journalist, he has unrivaled access to the full range of the city’s society, from student protestors and political prisoners to aristocrats and senior government officials. A powerful and dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, this book is the definitive account of one of the most important geopolitical standoffs of our time.
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.2 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:40.2 | I welcome Mark Clifford, the author of Today Hong Kong Tomorrow the World. |
| 0:46.5 | What China's crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere. |
| 0:50.8 | Mark has a veteran journalist many, many years in Hong Kong of various publications |
| 0:57.4 | this is South China Morning Post and then as a director of the Apple Daily publication. |
| 1:05.0 | We are now looking at how did we get to a city that is, that's had its spirit crushed by the people's Republic of China's bully boys. |
| 1:14.9 | And we begin with a quote that Mark gives in his chapter about how we got here. |
| 1:21.6 | This is from the Distinguished Scholar Perry Link. |
| 1:25.4 | The Chinese government's sensorial authority in recent times has resembled not so much a man-eating tiger or fire-snorting dragon as a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead chandelier. |
| 1:40.1 | Mark, congratulations and good evening to you. |
| 1:42.5 | I ask you to explain that anaconda in the chandelier above us. |
| 1:48.0 | How does that sit on the people of Hong Kong then and now? |
| 1:52.0 | Good evening to you. |
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