{"video":"pReuZkRm","title":"Hong Kong's Fight for Freedom Against China's Authoritarianism","size":1024,"views":1486,"score":null,"user":"ReasonVids","date":1658338565856,"cdn":null,"duration":"11:59","description":"\"If we lose...we will lose a generation.\"  \n  \n---------  \nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/reasontv  \nLike us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...  \nFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason  \nSubscribe to our podcast at Apple Podcasts: https://goo.gl/az3a7a  \n  \nReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.  \n_____  \n  \nThe protests that have consumed Hong Kong for more than three months started because of a proposed bill that would've made it easier for mainland China to extradite citizens from the semi-autonomous city, raising fears that Beijing's central government would target political dissidents.  \n  \nViolent clashes between protesters and police culminated in a confrontation at a subway station on August 31, when police appeared to beat demonstrators with batons—possibly resulting in a fatality, though the authorities dispute that.  \n  \nThe activists, politicians, and academics we spoke with said that the protest movement  has become about much more than the extradition bill—which the government has since withdrawn—or police brutality. It's a fight for the survival of an island of liberalism in the shadow of an increasingly authoritarian superstate with ambitions of global dominance.  \n  \n\"We are at the front lines between the great to dictatorship among human history, which is [the Chinese Communist Party], and the free world,\" says \"Sixtus\" Baggio Leung, a controversial activist who emerged from the 2014 Umbrella Movement and made it into office before being disqualified for promoting Hong Kong independence during his swearing-in ceremony.  \n  \n  \nDespite their doubts about the likelihood of the government granting them the what they seek, the movement's leaders say they have no choice but to keep fighting for liberty and democracy, or else Hong Kong will be subsumed into an authoritarian state.  \n  \n\"If we lose, oh, we will suffer,\" says Leung. \"We will lose a generation. This generation, they will be put into jail. They will be harassed. So [it's] all or nothing. Now or never.\"  \n  \nProduced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Edwin Lee. Additional graphics by Ian Keyser.  \n  \nPhoto credits: Todd Darling/Polaris/Newscom, Liau Chung Ren/ZUMA/Newscom, Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom, Rao Aimin Xinhua News Agency/Newscom, Steven Shaver/UPI/Newscom, EPN/Newscom, face to face/ZUMA Press/Newscom, Constance Zavarzhin/ZUMA/Newscom, Geovien SO/ZUMA/Newscom, Guillame Payen/ZUMA/Newscom, Imagine China/Newscom, Walt Disney Pictures/Album/Newscom, Tang Ke/Zuma/Newscom.","keywords":"[\"libertarian\",\"reason magazine\",\"reason.com\",\"reason.tv\",\"reasontv\",\"hong kong\",\"protests\",\"demonstrations\",\"2019\",\"china\",\"chinese communist party\",\"independence\",\"autonomy\",\"one country two systems\",\"rule of law\",\"liberty\",\"demosisto\",\"denise ho\",\"joshua wong\",\"youngspiration\",\"baggio leung\",\"xi jinping\",\"donald trump\",\"trade war\",\"sanctions\",\"hong kong human rights and democracy act\",\"self determination\",\"nationalism\",\"globalism\",\"localism\"]","kwcount":30,"mdescription":"\"If we lose...we will lose a generation.\"<br /><br />---------<br />Subscribe to our YouTube channel: <a href=\"http://youtube.com/reasontv\">http://youtube.com/reasontv</a><br />Like us on Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...\">https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...</a><br />Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/reason\">https://twitter.com/reason</a><br />Subscribe to our podcast at Apple Podcasts: <a href=\"https://goo.gl/az3a7a\">https://goo.gl/az3a7a</a><br /><br />Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.<br /><strong></strong><em><br /><br />The protests that have consumed Hong Kong for more than three months started because of a proposed bill that would've made it easier for mainland China to extradite citizens from the semi-autonomous city, raising fears that Beijing's central government would target political dissidents.<br /><br />Violent clashes between protesters and police culminated in a confrontation at a subway station on August 31, when police appeared to beat demonstrators with batons—possibly resulting in a fatality, though the authorities dispute that.<br /><br />The activists, politicians, and academics we spoke with said that the protest movement  has become about much more than the extradition bill—which the government has since withdrawn—or police brutality. It's a fight for the survival of an island of liberalism in the shadow of an increasingly authoritarian superstate with ambitions of global dominance.<br /><br />\"We are at the front lines between the great to dictatorship among human history, which is <a href=\"undefined\">the Chinese Communist Party</em></a>, and the free world,\" says \"Sixtus\" Baggio Leung, a controversial activist who emerged from the 2014 Umbrella Movement and made it into office before being disqualified for promoting Hong Kong independence during his swearing-in ceremony.<br /><br /><br />Despite their doubts about the likelihood of the government granting them the what they seek, the movement's leaders say they have no choice but to keep fighting for liberty and democracy, or else Hong Kong will be subsumed into an authoritarian state.<br /><br />\"If we lose, oh, we will suffer,\" says Leung. \"We will lose a generation. This generation, they will be put into jail. They will be harassed. So <a href=\"undefined\">it's</a> all or nothing. Now or never.\"<br /><br />Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Edwin Lee. Additional graphics by Ian Keyser.<br /><br />Photo credits: Todd Darling/Polaris/Newscom, Liau Chung Ren/ZUMA/Newscom, Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom, Rao Aimin Xinhua News Agency/Newscom, Steven Shaver/UPI/Newscom, EPN/Newscom, face to face/ZUMA Press/Newscom, Constance Zavarzhin/ZUMA/Newscom, Geovien SO/ZUMA/Newscom, Guillame Payen/ZUMA/Newscom, Imagine China/Newscom, Walt Disney Pictures/Album/Newscom, Tang Ke/Zuma/Newscom.","next":"JrandWUK","usdprice":null,"removed":null,"comments":null,"css":null,"dviewadd":null,"hls":null,"tdescription":"\"If we lose...we will lose a generation.\"\n\n---------\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/reasontv\n[http://youtube.com/reasontv]\nLike us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...\n[https://www.facebook.com/Reason.Magaz...]\nFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reason [https://twitter.com/reason]\nSubscribe to our podcast at Apple Podcasts: https://goo.gl/az3a7a\n[https://goo.gl/az3a7a]\n\nReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a\nlibertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get from\nlegacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.\n\n\nThe protests that have consumed Hong Kong for more than three months started\nbecause of a proposed bill that would've made it easier for mainland China to\nextradite citizens from the semi-autonomous city, raising fears that Beijing's\ncentral government would target political dissidents.\n\nViolent clashes between protesters and police culminated in a confrontation at a\nsubway station on August 31, when police appeared to beat demonstrators with\nbatons—possibly resulting in a fatality, though the authorities dispute that.\n\nThe activists, politicians, and academics we spoke with said that the protest\nmovement  has become about much more than the extradition bill—which the\ngovernment has since withdrawn—or police brutality. It's a fight for the\nsurvival of an island of liberalism in the shadow of an increasingly\nauthoritarian superstate with ambitions of global dominance.\n\n\"We are at the front lines between the great to dictatorship among human\nhistory, which is the Chinese Communist Party [undefined], and the free world,\"\nsays \"Sixtus\" Baggio Leung, a controversial activist who emerged from the 2014\nUmbrella Movement and made it into office before being disqualified for\npromoting Hong Kong independence during his swearing-in ceremony.\n\n\nDespite their doubts about the likelihood of the government granting them the\nwhat they seek, the movement's leaders say they have no choice but to keep\nfighting for liberty and democracy, or else Hong Kong will be subsumed into an\nauthoritarian state.\n\n\"If we lose, oh, we will suffer,\" says Leung. \"We will lose a generation. This\ngeneration, they will be put into jail. They will be harassed. So it's\n[undefined] all or nothing. Now or never.\"\n\nProduced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Edwin Lee. Additional graphics by Ian\nKeyser.\n\nPhoto credits: Todd Darling/Polaris/Newscom, Liau Chung Ren/ZUMA/Newscom, Chine\nNouvelle/SIPA/Newscom, Rao Aimin Xinhua News Agency/Newscom, Steven\nShaver/UPI/Newscom, EPN/Newscom, face to face/ZUMA Press/Newscom, Constance\nZavarzhin/ZUMA/Newscom, Geovien SO/ZUMA/Newscom, Guillame Payen/ZUMA/Newscom,\nImagine China/Newscom, Walt Disney Pictures/Album/Newscom, Tang Ke/Zuma/Newscom.","bitrate":0.0013908205841446453,"md5":"575603da74a92c2936af60aff35e8474","type":"invidious","extra":"Xr1RNeycoCQ","up":null,"down":null}