3/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by Mark L. Clifford (Author)
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3/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere Hardcover – February 1, 2022 by Mark L. Clifford (Author)
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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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes you just need to get away. |
| 0:02.8 | And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June. |
| 0:05.5 | They wanted to know exactly what they were getting, |
| 0:08.0 | like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free. |
| 0:11.6 | Yes! |
| 0:12.6 | And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels. |
| 0:17.4 | Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip. |
| 0:19.8 | Cremeier Inn, rest easy. |
| 0:21.9 | Only available to book at cremierin.com. |
| 0:24.9 | Season C's apply of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full-paying adult. |
| 0:35.5 | This is CBSI on the World. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm John Bachel with the author Mark Clifford, the journalist, Mark Clifford. |
| 0:41.9 | Today Hong Kong tomorrow the world where China's crackdown reveals about its plans to end |
| 0:46.7 | freedom everywhere. |
| 0:47.7 | Mark arrives in Hong Kong in 1992. |
| 0:50.7 | At that point, everybody in China I read was still reacting to thinking about or unaware |
| 0:57.4 | of something that horrible had happened in Beijing in 1989 that we now refer to as Tiananmen. |
| 1:06.2 | What was Tiananmen to the people of Hong Kong when you arrived, Mark? |
| 1:09.6 | Can you cast your youth and imagine what they were saying about it, what they thought about |
| 1:14.7 | it every June when the anniversary came? |
| 1:17.8 | Well, they didn't wait until every June, pretty much every day. |
| 1:20.7 | They were conscious that in five years they were going to be taken over by the Chinese Communist |
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