I see an ongoing narrative that the current congressional push for forced divesture of TikTok is intertwined with the Israel-Palestine conflict, that TT has become a platform where pro-Palestine content dominate, not only angering pro-Jewish forces in the US but also showing the political and propaganda potential of TT. To what extent do you think this narrative is true?
Great idea for a Saturday morning. A topic I haven’t seen you cover: With the fall of Roe v Wade and restrictions on abortion in many US states, are other countries with at least a generation or two of reproductive freedom experiencing a similar phase of restriction? So often, waves of ideology are not restricted to one country, but we usually hear this as only a U.S. story.
Thank you for including Hong Kong in your subjects of discussion. I call Hong Kong my hometown even though technically I wasn't born there. I grew up there during the colonial era and enjoyed freedom of speech and expression. I was there during the 1997 handover. There was a lot of coverage by the Western media on this historical event, but as time passed by, Hong Kong iis seldom on the news radar in the West. Personally I have been observing the "demise" of Hong Kong with great sadness and grief from a distance. I think Hong Kong is an important (and tragic) case of the PRC's aggressive expansion of power and erosion of human rights, and definitely deserves more attention. What China did to Hong Kong can be easily replicated in Taiwan. And given China's expansionist policy over the past few decades through trade, infrustratural support and monetary manipulation in developing countries and beyond, the lesson arising from Hong Kong is of utmost importance in the bigger picture of the world's geopolitics where China plays such an important role. I'd like to know your perspective on the implications of Article 23 and anything else you have to say about Hong Kong.
I see an ongoing narrative that the current congressional push for forced divesture of TikTok is intertwined with the Israel-Palestine conflict, that TT has become a platform where pro-Palestine content dominate, not only angering pro-Jewish forces in the US but also showing the political and propaganda potential of TT. To what extent do you think this narrative is true?
Great idea for a Saturday morning. A topic I haven’t seen you cover: With the fall of Roe v Wade and restrictions on abortion in many US states, are other countries with at least a generation or two of reproductive freedom experiencing a similar phase of restriction? So often, waves of ideology are not restricted to one country, but we usually hear this as only a U.S. story.
Thank you for including Hong Kong in your subjects of discussion. I call Hong Kong my hometown even though technically I wasn't born there. I grew up there during the colonial era and enjoyed freedom of speech and expression. I was there during the 1997 handover. There was a lot of coverage by the Western media on this historical event, but as time passed by, Hong Kong iis seldom on the news radar in the West. Personally I have been observing the "demise" of Hong Kong with great sadness and grief from a distance. I think Hong Kong is an important (and tragic) case of the PRC's aggressive expansion of power and erosion of human rights, and definitely deserves more attention. What China did to Hong Kong can be easily replicated in Taiwan. And given China's expansionist policy over the past few decades through trade, infrustratural support and monetary manipulation in developing countries and beyond, the lesson arising from Hong Kong is of utmost importance in the bigger picture of the world's geopolitics where China plays such an important role. I'd like to know your perspective on the implications of Article 23 and anything else you have to say about Hong Kong.