The Dangerous Idea Behind the World’s Unrest
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Over the past several months, tensions have escalated in Hong Kong, Kashmir, and the United States. Each for their own reasons. But what if all these headlines are connected?
Guest: Josh Keating, international editor at Slate
For more information about this episode please read:
• “The Next Jimmy Aldaoud” by Chris Gelardi
• “India’s Great Disenfranchisement” by Namrata Kolachalam
• “Crossing a Line in Kashmir” by Nitish Pahwa
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a clip from the Hong Kong airport earlier this month. |
| 0:14.6 | Millions of people have been marching in the streets of Hong Kong for months. |
| 0:17.6 | They are protesting a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China. |
| 0:21.6 | Even with the rain, torrential at times, it's not stopping all of these protesters from rallying. |
| 0:27.6 | They are angry and they are committed to making their voices heard by the government. |
| 0:31.6 | The protests have recently morphed into something greater, a broad defense of the territory's autonomy from Beijing. |
| 0:38.9 | And this is Jammu and Kashmir, the Muslim majority state in the north of India. |
| 0:47.3 | There up Kashmir Khashmir Khashmir Naremaudha. |
| 0:53.3 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ended Kashmir's independent status and imprisoned its politicians. |
| 0:58.0 | Just yesterday, this raid in Mississippi, where they rounded up 680 people. |
| 1:05.0 | And right here in the U.S., nearly 700 workers were arrested earlier this month in Mississippi |
| 1:09.0 | for working illegally in the plants that provide the chicken that goes on your table. |
| 1:13.4 | And this serves as a very good deterrent. |
| 1:16.9 | Their crime? |
| 1:18.3 | They are some of the 11 million people living in the United States illegally. |
| 1:22.5 | Many have done so for more than a decade. |
| 1:24.3 | They may get in, although we're being very tough, but they may get in, but it doesn't matter |
| 1:29.3 | because they're going out. |
| 1:31.3 | My colleague Josh Keating looks at these headlines, Hong Kong, Kashmir, Mississippi, |
| 1:37.5 | and thinks those are all connected. |
| 1:41.7 | Can you just summarize to me what your, what links those things together? |
| 1:46.3 | You know, I think that they're talking about building up their borders and keeping other people |
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