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 to be talking about that today why the

C. C. P. has put these laws in 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 here at Popular Front, please do consider subscribing to our

Patreon keep us moving at Patreon.com slash Popular Front. I want to talk about what's been going on in in Hong Kong 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 with 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 24 hour periods,

multiple people being arrested, including like 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 just it's just being 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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