theBreaker.news Podcast: Is one country/two systems over in Hong Kong?

May 24, 2020 00:28:10
theBreaker.news Podcast: Is one country/two systems over in Hong Kong?
theBreaker.news Podcast
theBreaker.news Podcast: Is one country/two systems over in Hong Kong?

May 24 2020 | 00:28:10

/

Show Notes

For the week of May 24, 2020. Hear clips of Martin Lee, Hong Kong's "father of democracy," and student activist Joey Siu as they react to the monumental move by China's rubber stamp parliament to impose a national security law that threatens to end Hong Kong's free speech and free economy. The Chinese Communist Party's power grab, during the coronavirus pandemic, was emphatically condemned by the United States. Criticism from the Trudeau Liberals was subdued, despite as many as 300,000 Canadian passport-holders living in Hong Kong. Beijing's power play came the same week that Taiwan's independence-minded president Tsai Ing-wen was sworn-in for a second term.  Lee and Siu joined Conservative MPs Garnett Genuis and Kenny Chiu for a Facebook/Zoom webinar on the fate of human rights in Hong Kong.  Plus Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines, clips from songs by B.C. politicians who are aiming to lift spirits during the pandemic, and a focus on NDP MP Don Davies and Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, the latest inductees to the "Politician Said WHAT?!?" hall of fame. CLICK BELOW to listen or go to TuneIn or Apple Podcasts. Have you missed an edition of theBreaker.news Podcast? Go to the archive.

Support theBreaker.news for as low as $2 a month on Patreon. Find out how. Click here.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

May 09, 2021 00:26:46
Episode Cover

theBreaker.news Podcast: What's up, docs? Trio ponders the good, bad and ugly of the pandemic

For the week of May 9, 2021: Listen to highlights of doctors Anthony Fauci, Mike Ryan and Penny Ballem, who were all guests on...

Listen

Episode 0

December 04, 2022 00:24:19
Episode Cover

thePodcast: New West councillor Fontaine wants "Snowmaggedon" 2022 to be the last

For the week of Dec. 4, 2022: […]

Listen

Episode

February 10, 2019 00:26:53
Episode Cover

theBreaker.news Podcast: Ripping down the curtain

Change is coming to British Columbia, not because the NDP government is fulfilling an election promise. But because of Speaker Darryl Plecas's report that...

Listen