A new Hong Kong

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Shibani Mahtani reports on the security law sending a chill through Hong Kong. Abha Bhattarai explains why workers are being laid off — again. And Cleve Wootson on the implications of reopening Disney World in Florida.

With the introduction of a security law, hope for a democratic Hong Kong disappears.

Workers are being laid off for a second time, as coronavirus surge puts the brakes on reopening the economy.

Florida invited the nation to its reopening. Then it became a new coronavirus epicenter.

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0:21.6	Hi, this Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post
0:23.6	Hi, Jeff with 23 Oprah. Hi there. How are you?
0:27.1	It's Lisa bonus. This is post reports. I'm routine powers
0:34.6	It's Friday July 10
0:39.2	Today Hong Kong transforms overnight why some workers are getting laid off again and the reopening of Disney World
0:48.6	Sure
0:54.2	Surely this is not doom and gloom for Hong Kong
0:58.4	I'm sure with the passage of time and efforts and in fact in the facts being laid out
1:03.8	Confidence will grow in one country two systems and in Hong Kong's future
1:11.0	In the past week is in past
1:14.7	National security law here in Hong Kong and overnight it basically feels like
1:20.7	We all look up to a new reality and we live in a different city right now and I for one those radicals
1:28.0	Not to attempt to violate this law or crossing the red line because the consequences are bridging this law are very serious
1:37.6	I am Michelle Bani metani and I am the Hong Kong bureau chief for the Washington Post
1:44.7	When Hong Kong was handed back to mainland China
1:47.0	I mean nothing really really changed and things sort of when along as usual the day after but but this feels like like the real one that you know
1:55.6	Hong Kong is very much now
1:57.1	mainland China
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