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Today, Explained

"First Hong Kong, then the world"

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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While most of the world was distracted by the pandemic, China unveiled a law to strip Hong Kong of its autonomy, setting off a new wave of protests in the city. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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risk of loss. The streets of Hong Kong sound awfully familiar.

1:32.1

It sounds a lot like last June, when massive protests erupted in Hong Kong.

1:37.6

They were big. They involved millions of people. They were sometimes very violent.

1:54.5

Last year, the protests were driven by an extradition bill that would essentially allow criminals

2:00.5

to be extradited over to mainland China from Hong Kong. The law would allow suspects to be sent

2:05.0

to mainland China to face trial. Critics of the bill fear this could lead to arbitrary

2:09.5

detention and unfair trials. Last year's protests never really ended. The only sudden

2:15.2

pittering out during the onset of coronavirus, when obviously people were freed to gather on mass

2:21.1

and kind of stayed at home. But two things have changed. One, coronavirus years is sort of no longer

2:28.3

a major concern. There have been no local cases in a few weeks now. And two, Beijing has taken

2:34.0

the opportunity of the world being distracted. This essentially made huge moves in and rewrite

2:38.6

the rules of Hong Kong. China has drafted a new sweeping national security law. It will criminalise

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