This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me, Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to Jack Hazelwood. He's a researcher focused on Hong Kong. He's lived there most of his life.

But right now he's not in the country.

I think that's important because the speed at which the CCP's so-called national security laws are scooping people up in Hong Kong and arresting them is getting quite bad.

So we're going to be talking about that today.

Why the CCP has put these laws on Hong Kong and why some people are saying that this is the death of Hong Kong as a free society if you like what we're doing

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I want to talk about what's been going on in Hong Kong in the last, I don't know, let's say like six weeks, maybe a little bit less than that,

or maybe a bit more rather.

It seems like, you know, China has basically got its stranglehold on the region now.

Maybe just go over what has been going on there.

Yeah, so it started obviously the national security law, which was implemented a couple of months ago now.

And subsequently, it almost feels like most days were getting like sort of a month's worth of news and developments, like literally in the next sort of 24 hour periods.

Multiple people been arrested,

including two people I know personally.

It's, you know, it's sort of,

it's like they've basically just decided to sort of export all of the sort of normal security practices and they're just their normal sort of,

you know, what you might say like modus operandi in the mainland's. It's just been almost in like the sort of, you know, what you might say, like modus operandi in the mainland.

It's just been almost in like the space of a couple of weeks.

It's now fully taken over Hong Kong and yeah, and it's obviously here to stay as well.

And what are these laws? They're really quite complicated, right?

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