The Original Sin Of Li Jiabao

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A young Chinese exchange student in Taiwan with no history of activism posts a video criticizing China's president Xi Jinping on Twitter, then asks for asylum. His request for protection fuels a larger discussion about Taiwan's role as a haven for Chinese dissidents, and also raises questions about who he is as an individual and his motivations. Who is he, and can he be trusted?

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0:00.0	Mmm!
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0:09.2	Hey Emily.
0:12.2	Emily, can you hear us?
0:13.9	I first talked to Emily saying last year,
0:16.3	maybe she doesn't have her headphones on,
0:17.7	she had just entered the world of radio
0:20.1	as NPR's Beijing correspondent.
0:22.2	Oh great, hi!
0:23.3	Hey there!
0:24.0	I haven't done this before, so Ops kindly helped me set it up.
0:27.7	Ops are the people who do so much behind the scenes here at NPR,
0:31.6	including training our reporters to use the equipment.
0:34.3	Yeah, I did a booth training a few days ago,
0:36.4	but I seemed to have forgotten everything
0:38.4	beyond just simply training on the mic.
0:41.1	Well, the mic is on, and that's the most important part.
0:43.4	Cool.
0:45.1	Emily reached out to us because she became fascinated
0:47.5	with this video that it hit Surface on Twitter
0:50.0	and was being shared by all the activists she knew.
0:52.7	Yeah, so I first noticed this video
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