Pageantry in Beijing. Firebombs in Hong Kong.

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule, scenes of pageantry, pride and unity in Beijing contrasted with the firebombs, rubber bullets and mass protests in Hong Kong. We look at what this day of contradictions tells us about the simmering unrest in the territory. Guests: Javier C. Hernández, a China correspondent for The New York Times reporting from Hong Kong, spoke with Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The violent confrontations in Hong Kong have presented a challenge to the image of unshakable control that President Xi Jinping of China has sought to project.As an American journalist in Beijing, our colleague was accustomed to a watchful Chinese government. But never before had the police insisted on occupying his home.A timeline of the summer of protests in Hong Kong: how they started, why they grew and how the government has responded.

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0:26.0	From a New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:33.0	This is the Daily.
0:36.0	Today.
0:44.3	As China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule.
0:51.4	The means of pageantry, pride, and unity in Beijing.
1:01.2	We're met with fire bombs, rubber bullets, and mass protests in Hong Kong.
1:11.2	My colleague Natalie Kicheref speaks with China correspondent Cavier Hernandez about a day
1:17.7	of historic contrasts.
1:29.9	It's Wednesday, October 2nd.
1:36.0	Have you take us back to a few weeks ago when you get this knock at your door?
1:42.1	Saturday morning, I'm in my home in Beijing, just relaxing, and I get a call from downstairs
1:49.1	saying that there's an officer from the Beijing Police Department, and he wants to discuss
1:54.6	something with you.
1:59.2	In that moment, I didn't really know what he wanted to talk about, whether it was an
2:03.6	article I had written, sometimes we get visits from the police.
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