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Remaking Hong Kong: Keep the Fishbowl, Change the Fish

Remaking Hong Kong: Keep the Fishbowl, Change the Fish

The Little Red Podcast · Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim

March 24, 202141m 9s

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Show Notes

China is now remoulding Hong Kong at speed.  Forty-seven Democratic politicians and activists have been arrested on national security charges for participating in last year’s primary polls, and only people Beijing deems ‘patriots’ allowed to run for office.  One prominent pro-Beijing figure has even warned that the electoral reforms risk ‘killing the patient’.  With the legislature muzzled, the authorities are turning their attention to the media, the arts and the education sector.  This month we're joined by a high-profile political exile, former Democratic party legislator Ted Hui, who's the first Hong Kong politician to flee to Australia, and former Democratic party chairperson, Emily Lau, who’s still in Hong Kong.

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