Hong Kong’s Protests One Year On
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Schneider, the host of ChinaTalk, sat down with Antony Dapiran, Hong Kong-based lawyer and author of two books on protests in Hong Kong. They discussed the history and legacy of the 2019 protests on the anniversary of one of the largest protests in human history, when two million Hongkongers marched against the extradition bill. They talked about the lead-up and aftermath of that day, how protests grew increasingly violent, the new national security law, and how these protests compare and contrast to Black Lives Matter.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:28.6 | What was I think in a way most and continues to be most tragic for Hong Kong is that the |
| 0:39.4 | government really in a way that I believe hasn't happened as much in other countries facing |
| 0:46.8 | similar social divisions. |
| 0:47.9 | The government really has demonized and made enemies of the people who support the protesters |
| 0:53.5 | and the protesters themselves. |
| 0:54.5 | Indeed, Carrie Lam herself has described them as enemies of the people. |
| 0:58.8 | In fact, she did so today in a press conference. |
| 1:01.4 | She said anyone who is opposing the national security law is making themselves an enemy |
| 1:05.3 | of the people. |
| 1:06.3 | And so the government has made an enemy of an entire generation of its youth and also the |
| 1:12.8 | engine of a service led economy such as Hong Kong, the professional middle class. |
| 1:16.5 | And it's obviously against the economic self-interest of Hong Kong, but also it's just a tragedy |
| 1:21.2 | for a community to for a government to divide its own community in that way and to treat |
| 1:27.2 | the best and brightest of the community as enemies, effectively forcing them either to |
| 1:32.2 | leave or condemning them to a lifetime of being marginalized and feeling undervalued |
| 1:39.1 | and not an accepted part of their own society. |
| 1:43.8 | I'm Jordan Schneider and this is the LawFair podcast June 26, 2020. |
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