This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. For this episode we're speaking to Lorele Shaw, a Hong Kong journalist, and she's going to be

telling us all about the protest movement currently sweeping across Hong Kong. She's going to explain why the protesters are

there, why there are so many and the laws that China are trying to put onto Hong Kong

that has caused everybody to come out in the streets and protest for the pro-democracy movement.

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Maybe you can just outline what are the protests about and why have they kicked off in such a big way?

The protests are about a proposed extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals to be sent

back to a number of territories including mainland China.

So the worry is that if that passed then China could use that as essentially a legal avenue to arrest anyone from Hong Kong back to China and knowing China's record with human rights and knowing it's justice system, it's very scary for the people of

Hong Kong.

So China would essentially try and use that as a loophole they think just to extradite anybody

back to China. That is the fear, anybody in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong enjoys a lot of freedoms that people

in mainland China don't, and the worries, if that passed passed then essentially those freedoms would no longer be there

we it would as it would be as if you're under the jurisdiction of China or at least

that's the fear right and how come these protests are so big because as someone who doesn't really keep an eye

on what's going on in Hong Kong, it seemed to me to just like explode, you know what I mean?

There's like 2 million people or something I read or marching the other day.

You know you're there you've been on the ground you've seen these protests how come

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