
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Hong Kong’s government has said it wants to pass a new national security law. It comes four years after China imposed sweeping legislation in the wake of massive pro-democracy protests.
The proposed law would lay out five major areas of offenses: treason, insurrection, theft of state secrets, sabotage and external interference.
The proposal, known as Article 23 legislation, has long been a point of conflict in Hong Kong.
Martin Yip, a BBC journalist based in Hong Kong, walks us through the significance of this new law, how it relates to the umbrella protests in 2014 and 2019, and if more mass protests are expected.
Plus, Nicole Kidman’s new Amazon Prime series ‘Expats’ - a show about the life of foreigners in Hong Kong - has aired everywhere except in the territory itself. The BBC’s Fan Wang explains.
Email: [email protected]
By BBC World Service4.3
1616 ratings
Hong Kong’s government has said it wants to pass a new national security law. It comes four years after China imposed sweeping legislation in the wake of massive pro-democracy protests.
The proposed law would lay out five major areas of offenses: treason, insurrection, theft of state secrets, sabotage and external interference.
The proposal, known as Article 23 legislation, has long been a point of conflict in Hong Kong.
Martin Yip, a BBC journalist based in Hong Kong, walks us through the significance of this new law, how it relates to the umbrella protests in 2014 and 2019, and if more mass protests are expected.
Plus, Nicole Kidman’s new Amazon Prime series ‘Expats’ - a show about the life of foreigners in Hong Kong - has aired everywhere except in the territory itself. The BBC’s Fan Wang explains.
Email: [email protected]

7,608 Listeners

520 Listeners

298 Listeners

1,802 Listeners

1,747 Listeners

1,041 Listeners

499 Listeners

378 Listeners

311 Listeners

969 Listeners

477 Listeners

250 Listeners

330 Listeners

47 Listeners

26 Listeners