The Pandemic in Hong Kong

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In china, we've sen that kick into action when it comes to shaping the narrative around any kind of responsibility people might believe china has for how the pandemic developed. And i guess in hong kong, we've got something a bit different, which is perhaps, you know, this city which suddenly is moving from the external internet to the chinese internet. It's still something of a transitional phase, because a lot of the organizations and a lot of speech being cracked down upon is happening within hongkong. But as more and more people flee over seas, and you start to see the centre of conversation around honkong political activism become moved to the diasper

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