Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), joins Kaiser for a discussion of the ongoing Hong Kong protests, possible U.S. responses, Beijing's puzzling inaction, the perspectives of mainland Chinese, and media coverage of ongoing events in Hong Kong.
4:52: Hong Kong’s young democratic leaders
15:39: The volatility of the Hong Kong protests
27:10: Mainland sentiments on Hong Kong
38:21: Media coverage of the protests
46:04: Speaking Mandarin, a new liability in Hong Kong?
Recommendations:
Jude: How Hong Kong got to this point, an essay by Richard Bush.
Kaiser: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer.
The one-child policy, plus the African community in Guangzhou
The extremes of Chinese media, plus Chinese internet humor
Zhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project
Suicides, strikes, and labor unrest in China
Critical media, foreign and domestic
Mao's legacy and foreign self-censorship
Schoolyard violence with Chinese characterisitcs
Dimensions of China's soft power
Huang Guangyu trial and real estate dilemma
The eulogy and the aftershocks
China's gadflies and the mine miracle
Iran and the vaccination scandal
Google China and the Pullout
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