Daily: Fighting for Hong Kong in Exile

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Around the world democratic values have been in decline, with Hong Kong’s struggle against Beijing one of the clearest examples. Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law was Hong Kong’s youngest legislative councillor, until he was arrested for speaking his mind. Now living in exile here in Britain, he talks to Arthur Snell about his new book Freedom: How we lose it, and how we fight back, the reasons for our recent democratic recession, and how he’s fighting for Hong Kong from afar. “The 2019 protests saw over 2 million people marching, over a quarter of Hong Kong’s population” “When mainland China wanted Hong Kong back in 1997, people were fearful of a return to autocracy” “I had to continue to speak up for Hong Kong, which meant I had to leave the place I consider home” “Hong Kong is just one example is the democratic recession we’ve seen across the world” Presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.3	Nathan Law was the youngest person ever to be
1:16.4	elected to the legislative council in Hong Kong. He became one of the leaders of
1:22.0	the democracy movement there and in a short period of his life
1:26.6	had probably experienced more political turmoil than most of us would hope to experience in a lifetime.
1:34.0	His book, Just Out, Freedom, How We Lose It and How We Fight Back,
1:38.3	is an account of some of those experiences
1:40.8	and also an inspiring text on the wider questions of freedom in the age of autocracy.
1:49.0	Nathan is here with me today.
1:51.0	I'm really excited to talk to him about this book. Nathan
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