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Viewsroom: Rising Hong Kong tensions

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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After more than five months of unrest in the city, a prolonged violent siege on a university campus ratcheted things up anew. Blocked roads and trains shuttered schools as tear gas wafted through the central business district. Its status as a financial hub may be under threat.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5

Hello. Hello, you are listening to the Views Room.

0:43.7

The world is watching Hong Kong, where an extraordinary standoff between police and protesters

0:48.8

at a local university has captivated detention after more than five months of anti-government protests.

0:56.0

I'm Yuna Galani and I'm joined by my colleagues on the ground in Hong Kong, Robin Mack and Jeffrey Goldfarb.

1:04.0

A siege on the campus of Polytechnic University extended into its third day on Tuesday.

1:10.0

Although the size of demonstrations across the city

1:12.8

have shrunk, the clashes have grown in intensity becoming more violent. The site of billowing

1:18.5

fires, water cannon and gunshot wounds have shocked all of us familiar with Hong Kong

1:23.7

as a peaceful and stable financial hub. Robin, maybe we can start with you. Thanks for

1:29.4

joining us. So until recently, people in Hong Kong were pretty much able to live and go to work

1:37.2

as normal. What's changed for you in this last week, you know, for you, your friends, your colleagues,

1:44.0

you know, in practical terms? Yeah, your colleagues, you know, in

1:44.3

practical terms. Yeah, I think so when a lot of these protests and demonstrations, they first

1:49.8

started a couple months ago, they were largely confined to specific areas. They happened,

1:56.7

you know, over the weekends and at night. So for ordinary people going to and from work or

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