HONG KONG Forgotten by Washington: 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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🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 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.
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| 0:30.0 | I welcome Mark Clifford, the author of Today Hong Kong Tomorrow the World, |
| 0:36.0 | What China's Crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere. |
| 0:40.0 | Mark is a veteran journalist many, many years in Hong Kong, various publications, the South China |
| 0:47.8 | Morning Post and then as a director of the Apple Daily publication we are now looking at how did we get to a city that |
| 0:58.6 | is that's had a spirit crushed by the People's Republic of China's bully boys. |
| 1:04.7 | And we begin with a quote that Mark gives in his chapter about how we got here. |
| 1:11.4 | This is from the distinguished scholar |
| 1:13.3 | Perry Ling. The Chinese government's |
| 1:16.2 | censorial authority in recent times has resembled not so much a man-eating |
| 1:20.6 | tiger or fires snorting dragon as a giant Anaconda coiled in an overhead |
| 1:27.8 | chandelier. Mark congratulations and good evening to you I ask you to explain that that Anaconda in the |
| 1:36.4 | chandelier above us how does that sit on the people of Hong Kong then and now good |
| 1:41.9 | evening to you well good evening John and thanks of course for your |
| 1:45.8 | interest. Well Perry Link was talking about the trying to explain the puzzle of |
| 1:50.8 | how visitors to China would see well-stocked supermarkets, luxury department |
| 1:56.8 | stores, and contrasting that with the old Soviet Union where there was never anything and people looked really beaten down and in China people |
| 2:06.2 | outward appearances look like they're having kind of you know middle-class lives |
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