Hong Kong 47 Conviction and National Security Law Impact

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Discussion on the recent conviction of 14 pro-democracy activists from the Hong Kong 47 group and the implications of the National Security Law imposed by Beijing. The chapter delves into the ongoing suppression of dissent in Hong Kong, highlighting the atmosphere of resignation among Hong Kongers due to sweeping arrests under the new national security law.

There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been convicted; an annual vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing in 1989 has been replaced by a food fair. A boom in startups suggests America is recovering its pioneering spirit (8:06). And remembering June Mendoza, portrait painter to the royals, and the less well-known (16:28).

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