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Podcast: Fault Lines
Episode: Episode 387: Courting Investors, Crushing Dissent in Hong Kong
Description: Today, Martha, Jess, Andy, and Jeffrey discuss the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists to four to ten-year prison sentences by the Hong Kong government under the Beijing-induced national security law. This is the largest usage of the law since it was enacted in 2020 to suppress a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. This sentencing comes amidst a three-day Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit hosted in Hong Kong where Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng touted Hong Kong as an international finance hub. Are these sentences and the national security law a blueprint for Taiwan if they were to be forcibly reunified with Chi...