This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelot. My colleague and friend Gordon Chang

joins me as my co-host at Gordangie Chang. The song is glory to Hong Kong, glory to Hong Kong.

And the challenge now is what is to be done with the potential banning of this song, not

only in Hong Kong, only in the part of the world dominated by the people's Republic of China

and their gunmen, but also on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music. We welcome Mark Simon,

longtime deputy and director at the now closed Apple Daily and Jimmy Lai's close assistant.

Jimmy Lai remains in jail, detained, persecuted along with editors and colonists of the Apple

Daily. But right now we're speaking to a song that was commonplace to hear during the

protests of many years, but especially in 2019. And now we're in a courtroom potentially to

rule on whether this song, glory to Hong Kong, can be hummed, played, sung, recited in any fashion

on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, which the last time I checked, that's the USA.

Mark, a very good evening to you. First of all, glory to Hong Kong. Was this in English and in

Chinese and what kind of Chinese is it? Is it best performed in? Good evening to you.

Oh, by far it's best performed in Cantonese, the local dialect of Hong Kong and this other

in China, Canton, even southern Guangzhou, Xinjiang region. It's also performed in Mandarin. I've

heard it before that before. It's performed in English, which is a somewhat tortured version, but

it's there. But yes, it's a Hong Kong song. It's Cantonese song, primarily. You can perform it

just to the about anything. I've heard it performed actually in Spanish. And so people can translate it.

It's got nice, the lyrics are pretty good, but the tune itself is moving. But yeah, this is

this is this is one that comes out of the blue. It's the it's the rule of unintended consequences of

dictators. In other words, they do things and you don't know what's going to happen.

They've moved to ban this song in the eyes of the National Security Bureau. It's actually banned

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