it's kind of Rosa deputy China is trying
to occupy us
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require a higher gonna go tick to the
coca would it be exaggerating it to say
that this situation is pulling families
apart
oh yeah like taking high
these are traumatic days for the people
of Hong Kong we've been seeing this for
months
a router a government bill demands for
greater democracy allegations of police
brutality and speak to people here and
they'll tell you this crisis goes so
much deeper and it's been decades in the
making
sold out Hong Kong to China in the 1980s
after a century and a half of colonial
rule Britain agreed to hand Hong Kong
back to China in 1997
now Hong Kong people are to run Hong
Kong
oh but that horse um you know ye hold
tongue to Bank on I don't got no this
long okay when was the last time he was
in here Charlie five tonight
jenny was born here in Hong Kong but she
calls herself Chinese her sons are all
involved in the protests two of them
won't speak to her anymore
hi Yvonne went on teasing us all at find
solace seeking a city melody
hi ho or the whole time I got it or they
said no cutting or they you know fine
convoy yet so this is solving the
orphanage she fumbled on home is
something given ta da
tell him I guess if I recall so if I
were you
do you think the boys will be home for
soup they also some games so your soup
is more powerful than politics I hope so
when Britain handed Hong Kong back China
agreed that for 50 years until 2040
seven life in Hong Kong would stay
pretty much the same the current social
and economic systems of Hong Kong the
two sides agreed will remain unchanged
and so will the lifestyle for Hong Kong
has that meant keeping all the rights
they enjoyed under British rule but
Communist China was a very different
place so Beijing had a term for the new
arrangement one country two systems' but
how could that possibly last up close
Hong Kong is big confident impressive
but zoom out a little
pretty soon the territory almost
disappears a tiny speck on the edge of a
vast nation
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so this is the border between Hong Kong
here and just over the water China and
that enormous city is Schengen more than
13 million people live there it's way
bigger than Hong Kong standing here you
get an incredible sense of the power of
modern China pressing in from the north
and it's not just power it's people
every day a hundred and fifty mainland
citizens are allowed into Hong Kong on
one-way tickets
that's more than a million new arrivals
since 1997 yo Deecee will punch wound up
like a weekend Dorothy : Linga hi Sundy
mange God Hank what I hate tapping up in
hand over the gong they got a lot on my
or something yeah okay yep you got it
that's the dialect that most Hong Kong
has speak it's very different from the
Mandarin spoken by most people on the
mainland but more and more schools here
teach Mandarin like Cyrus's where some
children cross over from the mainland
every day they kiss all we gotta lay
tight see hi who turns out Yeti and
don't PO tomahto
when we get supine LOC on Potomac at
home come home again how you go Coco
don't want to have emotions anger come
take picture and we've got the hoots you
learn how long you're not how do you
feel about new arrivals couple fun case
up he had my doling are they are they
can you get like you and I'm how they
dull Bongo guys I don't owe them some
hug them gurgle laps up on I being them
some of the things Hong Kong is say
about mainlanders are troubling even
xenophobic they've been called locusts
ying has been here for eight years
single ocular communion without video
please call me Lily
hi guys today I'll go take a meeting I
will see negative ah and yeah you can
see you need single or tango yeah I
think there is hostility towards China
has been building for years immigration
and language play a part but it's also
because Hong Kong is filled China is
trying to impose its will what China is
doing this is kind of empiricism
whatever we want or not we are now at
the front line between the freedom world
and the greatest dictatorship right now
in the universe in 2003 there were
protests against legislation that would
have threatened free speech in 2012 it
happened again when the government tried
to change the school curriculum in 2014
the issue with the way China wanted to
influence Hong Kong's elections and most
recently another controversy a bill that
would have allowed the extradition of
criminal suspects to the mainland
eventually the government had to back
down but people fear that other things
have been happening in secret in 2015
China was accused of abducting five men
from a bookshop where you could find
scandalous accounts of life in communist
China so here it is Causeway books and
it's almost four years on and it's still
shut and firmly locked and people have
obviously been coming here leaving
messages of support here's one that you
can still read it says come back soon we
love you and your books
20 years of almost constant friction
with China have changed Hong Kong's
identity for a while people increasingly
thought of themselves as Chinese but in
the last 10 years that's changed and
when you look at young people it's
really changed the young protesters seem
to think they've got nothing to lose and
faced with what they see is excessive
brutality from the police they're more
and more ready to use violence
themselves if China trying to get this
face you have this fight for you
sewer there are some political programs
but I would say that protecting our
culture is the most imminent thing
suppose what are you prepared to do to
defend your culture I will say the
opponent is kind of symbol to say that
Hong Kong's people started to wake you
up we are putting on a very dangerous
place of the Eclipse during that the
tourism is really going down a lot of
restaurants or stops are real going down
it's kind of road to death you have to
be died to rebirth right these students
will be middle-aged when this 50 year
handover finally ends they'll probably
be thinking about their own kids will
they be on the barricades or will China
have one this long unequal battle for
the heart and soul of Hong Kong in the
midst of this crisis a powerful Hong
Kong identity is being forged unless
something really changes that's going to
be a problem for China for years to come