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Coming to you live on tape during week 52 of quarantine.

From my 8 yearold son's bedroom in rapidly gentrifying

culver city adjacent California boasting a partially obstructive view, not much.

This is the Tully show.

I am your host, Mike Tully.

Joining me today, direct from Hong Kong, as read in the Atlantic Bloomberg and many

more esteemed publications as well as the author of a book entitled

Super Power Interrupted the Chinese history of the world.

Hello and welcome Michael Schuman.

Thanks for having me on.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Now as somebody, how long have you been in Hong Kong?

Well, I've only gotten to Hong Kong

recently though in previously I lived here for nine years and I've actually been

in Asia since 1996 in different cities so I've been out here for a while.

So what is the mood in Hong Kong in regard to the future of any sort of autonomy for the citizens of Hong Kong?

Yeah, I say the mood here is kind of sullen.

It's, you know, I think people are actually kind of shock and how quickly

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