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This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the very niche and kind of geeky details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're doing an episode giving you some updates on the clashes in Hong Kong

because what started off as a protest is now kind of

looking like the start of what they would probably want to be a revolution.

So we're speaking to Rachel Yio, a local journalist with an independent newspaper in Hong Kong and she's

going to be telling us all about the increasing violence from police, the response

from protesters which is also violent and how all of this is starting to

look a little bit more than a protest that's going to blow over. In fact, while we

were speaking, I didn't even realize the first actual live round by

police had been fired in this latest round of

protests please do consider supporting us on patreon patreon.com slash popular front

the last podcast episode we did on Popular Front about Hong Kong. The protests were not peaceful but mostly peaceful, you know what I mean?

The majority of them were still kind of

peaceful there were clashes here and there but now things have changed right like a lot

so maybe you can explain what's happened in the last two weeks basically in Hong Kong or

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