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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
Description: Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong and Burma willing to court danger to help one another?
Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom met dozens of dissidents, including Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, known for his protests against compulsory Thai military service; Agnes Chow, co-founder of a political party now banned in Hong Kong; and Ye Myint Win (aka Nickey Diamond), who fled to Germany from Burma in the early 2020s, fearing reprisal from the junta for his human rights work.
Activists like these three express solidarity with one another online and in the streets, and sometimes refer to themselves as...