Stuart Lau (@stuartlauscmp) weaves his personal narrative together with the story of Hong Kong seamlessly. He touches on his beginnings in journalism that coincided with the first protests there since Tiananmen, pursuing a key official in the HK handover from the UK to China decades later, his inability as a Hong Konger to become a diplomat (much to the benefit of of the journalism industry), and much more. He also takes us to Cuba and Brussels but always with a bit of HK and China looming in the background. 

He talks about growing up the son of a Hong Kong native and a mainlander (5:40), his first inklings of journalism as he pursued a law degree (7:05), journalism school and getting his foot in the door of South China Morning Post (10:00), his SCMP days in Hong Kong covering a landmark court case and protests (22:22), a stint at BBC and his move to Brussels with SCMP (34:10), his story about Hong Kongers who migrated to Cuba in the 1950s (52:06), his role in the Panama Papers revelations (58:41), and finally the lightning round (1:04:17).

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Stuart's "think piece" on the climate change summit - http://bit.ly/2wHNyPH

His story on Hong Kong migrants in Cuba - http://bit.ly/2wGvlSv

One of his Panama Papers stories - http://bit.ly/32il7Dv

Xinhua's English language website - http://bit.ly/2SSgsVy

New Yorker story on Iranian General Soleimani - http://bit.ly/32l3S4g

David Foster Wallace essay on porn - http://bit.ly/2PicZxr

Jeremy Bowen's "War Stories" - https://amzn.to/2uWEWUN

Jade Chen's 《時代的摺痕》- http://bit.ly/2VictmX

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