The Battle Against Communist Reeducation in Hong Kong: Freedom Fighter Frances Hui Shares Her Remarkable Story
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
“A lot of my friends that I grew up with, that I met during my activism, a lot of them are either in jail or they're in exile,” says Frances Hui. She joined the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong when she was only 14 years old. Now she’s living in exile in the United States.
While the Chinese regime is “putting millions of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, when they are also doing that to Tibetans, when they're also putting thousands of Hong Kongers in jail, they realize none of these human rights abuses comes [at] any cost … That bar for accountability keeps getting lower and lower,” Ms. Hui says.
In this episode, we discuss her remarkable story, the Chinese regime’s attempts to brainwash people and rewrite history, and her hopes and fears for her city.
“I was fortunate enough that I experienced that golden era of Hong Kong. I got to be engaged in civil society. I [could] go to the streets and fight for my own freedom … But a lot of the young people now ... they don't get to grow up in that environment,” Ms. Hui says. “We are going to have a generation that [doesn't] know what's right or wrong.”
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of my friends that I grew up with are either in jail or they're in exile. |
| 0:04.4 | France's quay became a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong when she was only 14 years old. |
| 0:10.4 | Now she's living in exile in the United States. |
| 0:13.8 | While they are putting millions of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, |
| 0:18.8 | they are also doing that to Tibetans when they are also putting thousands of Hongkongers in jail, |
| 0:24.8 | they realize none of these rights abuses comes to any cost. |
| 0:29.3 | And that bar for accountability keeps getting lower and lower. |
| 0:33.6 | In this episode, she shares her remarkable story and her hopes and her fears for her city. |
| 0:39.6 | We are going to have a generation that don't know what's right or wrong. |
| 0:44.1 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yan Yikellik. |
| 0:49.5 | France's quay, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you for having me, thanks. |
| 0:54.8 | Well, I am frankly, I'm honored to have you on here. |
| 1:00.8 | It's my honor too. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, you're the first official Hong Kong, |
| 1:08.7 | Asylee in America, as I understand it, which I'm very, very happy that that happened. |
| 1:15.0 | Of course, why don't we actually start there? |
| 1:19.3 | Why don't you tell me your story? |
| 1:20.7 | Because you even started in the pro-democracy movement very early in life. |
| 1:24.9 | Right, and it's kind of an amazing story. |
| 1:27.1 | Tell me about that. |
| 1:28.9 | Well, so I was born and raised in Hong Kong. |
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