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Episode: Behind the Headlines | What’s going on in…Hong Kong?
Description: Recorded December 3, 2019.
On October 1 as Beijing celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong intensified. This was the 184th day of action by the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Despite the Extradition Bill being recently rescinded, the protests show no sign of stopping. You might be one of the Google users who made ‘Hong Kong’ among the most searched endings to the Google question ‘What’s going on in…?’ Our latest Behind the Headlines discussion seeks to answer that question, focusing on the escalating protests in the former British colony and exp...