Behind the Hong Kong protests

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What motivated the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents? It all began as a peace movement to block a piece of legislation. Millions of people came out onto public spaces calling for greater democracy. Protests have ended in violence between protesters and the police. Thousands have been arrested. Laura Westbrook travels to her birthplace to find out what’s behind the protests, which are now continuing on a smaller scale because of the outbreak of coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Okay, we've had a problem here.
0:02.0	13 minutes to the moon, season two.
0:05.0	We were not confident, we were going to get the crew back.
0:07.0	Episode one,'s now more divided than ever.
0:25.0	We are at war with a much larger force.
0:28.0	If we lose, then everything change.
0:31.0	The protests, I don't agree with them.
0:34.2	I support the police because the police force is the most important defend to maintain our social order.
0:45.0	That was Hong Kong last June,
0:52.0	when a quarter of the population took to the streets and the largest demonstration the city has seen.
0:58.0	What began as a peaceful movement to block a piece of legislation turned turned the city into a place where violence
1:05.0	and tear gas became the new normal.
1:09.5	Since the coronavirus outbreak, protests have turned into much smaller flare-ups.
1:15.0	However, anger continues to simmer beneath the surface.
1:19.0	Many believe the coming summer will see demonstrators once again returning to the streets.
1:26.8	How did the city reach this point?
1:29.1	Have the demonstrations changed, Hong Kong for good? Over the next hour I'll be trying to get under the skin of this extraordinary phenomenon.
1:38.0	This is behind the Hong Kong protests. the protesters have taken on a phrase known as Bewater which comes from
1:50.2	very famous Hong Kong martial arts and movie star Bruce Lee.
1:54.3	Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
2:00.1	You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the
2:04.7	bottle, you put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash.
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