314: Michael Yon | China's Big Trouble in Little Hong Kong
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) is an author, columnist, and award-winning independent war correspondent who gives us a frontline view of the current civil unrest between Hong Kong protestors and the government of mainland China.
What We Discuss with Michael Yon:- What Michael means by his oft-truncated and misunderstood quote: "If a writer wants to make money, he should avoid truth and tell people what they want to hear. Yet to win the war, tell the truth."
- The difference between riots, protests, general civil unrest, and insurgency -- and what's really going on in Hong Kong right now in contrast with the official story.
- Why Michael considers himself a war correspondent and not a journalist -- and how the two differ.
- Why the long-simmering relationship between China and Hong Kong is only now coming to a boil, and what the rest of the world should take away from this.
- How the current movement in Hong Kong compares to Poland's Solidarity Movement of the '80s -- and why this especially worries the Chinese Communist Party.
- And much more...
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| 0:42.5 | Today, Hong Kong is in the news of Bunch lately. |
| 0:45.2 | If you're like me, you watch with interest, but perhaps not a deep understanding of what's |
| 0:49.0 | actually going on and why this is important to the rest of the world. |
| 0:52.4 | Michael Yon, an award-winning independent war correspondent, joins us here on the show |
| 0:56.8 | to give us not only some background on Hong Kong, and of course the protest and civil unrest |
| 1:01.4 | there, but why these protests may already be an insurgency, capable of destabilizing |
| 1:07.4 | the Chinese Communist Party itself. |
| 1:10.0 | Michael has been embedded in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Hong Kong, hitting the streets nearly |
| 1:14.6 | every single night to film and document civil unrest, please brutality, political action |
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