Asia Pacific Currents

Massive protest shake up politics in Hong Kong


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Hong Kong is a special administrative of China with its own set of laws and regulations separate from most of mainland China. Hong Kong is in a transition period following the withdrawal of the UK as its colonial power in 1997.Since then, the city state has seen spikes in political activities and protests when major changes to its laws have been proposed. In the last few months, the Hong Kong government, headed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, proposed to introduce a new law that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China.APC talked to Carol Ng, the Womwn's Officer of the Confederation of Hong Kong Trade Unions, earlier in the week as to the reasons why this proposed laws saw demonstrations of up to two millions people flood the streets of Hong Kong.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia
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