BRUTALIZED AND PLUNDERED HONG KONG: 1/4: Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere by Mark L. Clifford
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Today-Hong-Kong-Tomorrow-World/dp/1250279178
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World tells the complete story of how a city once famed for protests so peaceful that toddlers joined grandparents in millions-strong rallies became a place where police have fired more than 10,000 rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition at their neighbors, while pro-government hooligans attack demonstrators in the streets. A Hong Kong resident from 1992 to 2021, author Mark L. Clifford has witnessed this transformation firsthand. As a celebrated publisher and journalist, he has unrivaled access to the full range of the city’s society, from student protestors and political prisoners to aristocrats and senior government officials. A powerful and dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, this book is the definitive account of one of the most important geopolitical standoffs of our time..
1930 HONG KONG
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| 0:35.2 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:40.9 | I welcome Mark Clifford, the author of Today, Hong Kong, Tomorrow, the World, |
| 0:46.6 | what China's crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere. |
| 0:51.0 | Mark is a veteran journalist many, many years in Hong Kong, various publications, |
| 0:57.5 | the South China Morning Post, and then as a director of the Apple Daily publication, |
| 1:04.4 | we are now looking at how did we get to a city that's had a spirit crushed by the People's Republic of China's bully boys? |
| 1:14.3 | And we begin with a quote that Mark gives in his chapter about how we got here. |
| 1:21.6 | This is from the distinguished scholar Perry Ling. |
| 1:25.1 | The Chinese government's censorial authority in recent times has resembled |
| 1:29.2 | not so much a man-eating tiger or fire-snorting dragon as a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead |
| 1:38.1 | chandelier. Mark, congratulations, and good evening to you. I ask you to explain that anaconda in the chandelier above us. |
| 1:48.0 | How does that sit on the people of Hong Kong then and now? |
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