Do you hear the people sing,

singing the song of a great man.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is the day.

We're mung-chang!

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I've got what's the world for? The pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong brought hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets in 2019.

They demanded democracy and that China uphold the freedoms it had promised when it took back

the British colony in the late 1990s.

For the first time since Beijing imposed a new security law on Hong Kong, police have carried out dozens of arrests and used water cannon and tear gas against protesters.

China responded by arresting thousands of protesters,

including the leaders of the movement, like a man named Jimmy Lai.

For decades, Lai had used his wealth and his newspaper to campaign for democracy.

He was a constant thorn in the side of Beijing.

If I knew that I would be, you know, end up like this in prison, would I have changed the way I run my life?

And I realized that, no, I won't.

We interviewed Lai on the show in 2020, just after he was arrested.

Because I never did anything before intentionally, just naturally.

So it must be my character.

Now, if it's my character, it's my destiny.

It's my destiny.

It's God's grace and blessing.

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