The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Two Asian

topics today. First an update from Brian Hugh and the protests in Hong Kong and

then Kavita Krishnan reports on what the Indian government is doing to

Kashmir.

Protest broke out at the end of March in Hong Kong, initially directed against a proposal

to make it easier to extradite locals to China to face criminal charges. This excited fears that the

jurisdiction's autonomy was under threat. But it also ignited a whole lot of other

discontents, including material concerns like low wages, high rents, miserably cramped living conditions, and grim prospects for the young.

The demonstrations have been huge on occasion drawing a third of Hong Kong's population.

They're the biggest protest since the so-called

umbrella movement of 2014 which are aimed at proposals to tighten Chinese

control over the jurisdiction's elections. They ended after a couple of months

without any concessions from the government.

We had Brian Hugh that spelled H-I-O-E on the show in June to explain what's been going on.

Here we are a couple of months later, and the unrest unrest continues so I thought a return engagement might be useful.

He was one of the founding editors of New Bloom, which in its own words is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.

He's an American of Taiwanese origin who grew up and was educated in New York, Brian Hugh.

The protests go on.

Their longevity is impressive.

There is a little narrative in our

press recently that things went violent for a little well now the back to being

peaceful how would you assess the state of things just on that level right now? I think that things are violent in the

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