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slash subscribe. Hello and welcome to another episode of The Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Tracy Allaway. Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast.

I'm Joe Wiesenthal.

And I'm Tracy Ella-Wai.

So Tracy, you're in Hong Kong.

Obviously, we've been talking about some recent episodes about some of the

re-emergence of the virus there, but also virus aside. This is just a sort of a big moment in time for Hong Kong

for obvious reason. Yeah there's no shortage of news flow here in Hong Kong

aside from the virus we've had a year of unrest in the form of the big protests

against the extradition law and now most recently in the past month we've had the

imposition of a new national security law which gives China sweeping powers, I guess you'd say, over Hong Kong.

Right. So I remember thinking like, you know, a year ago, you know, it's pretty like a, because a year ago by now the sort of like,

the protests had really gathered steam. Like it was like last summer when we really saw

the re-acceleration of the protest

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