What does it mean to live in Hong Kong right now?

People fear that we're going to lose our freedoms,

personal safety, the rule of law and all that, and become just another Chinese city.

As protests against a new Chinese national security law continue, Boris Johnson has offered

a route to UK citizenship for up to 3 million people from Hong Kong.

People in Hong Kong have seen this as one victory, a small one, I have to say, but nevertheless it's a

small victory.

As the world's attention is drawn elsewhere, are the city's freedoms under threat?

And what responsibilities does the UK have to its former territory?

You're listening to stories of our times,

from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm Manveen Rana. Today, the

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Prime Minister, on Wednesday you sign an agreement with China promising to deliver over 5 million people into the hands of a communist dictatorship.

It's 1984.

The grainy video that survives from that time

shows a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, sitting stiffly behind a desk,

fielding questions from the press.

So I was sent to cover that press conference.

Emily Lau is now a veteran of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and a former

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