Hello and welcome to the Sky News, all-out politics podcast. I'm Adam Bolton. But this week we're going to talk about the recent protests in Hong Kong, how we got here and what's going to happen next. And to take me through that, I'm joined by the Telegraph China correspondent, Sophia Yan,

and by Sky News correspondent, Shavon Robbins.

They're both in Hong Kong.

Here with me in London are the director of Hong Kong Watch,

Johnny Patterson and the Times columnist and author Edward Lucas.

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review and tell your friends about the All-Out Politics podcast. One thing is absolutely certain.

The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China do appear to be into a major diplomatic

confrontation.

Let's hear from the Chinese ambassador and the UK Foreign Secretary.

Hong Kong is China's special administrative region.

It is not what it used to be under the British colonial rule.

Hong Kong affairs are purely China's internal affairs which broke no interference

from any country, any organization or any individual.

We strongly condemn and oppose the gross interference

in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs by the British side.

I really hope that there aren't changes in Hong Kong that undermine that agreement, which is a legally binding agreement

between Britain and China. We stand behind what was in that agreement. We stand behind the freedoms

that are enshrined, and we stand behind the people of Hong Kong. All right, so how did we get

here? Ed Lucas, just give us a pottyed history of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

The Hong Kong was acquired by the British in two bits, one which became a sort of full colony

and one which was leased from China.

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