and that s brought protesters on to the streets like in the summer of twenty fourteen when tens of thousands of people gathered to campaign against limits being put on their voting rights many fear that those and other supposedly guaranteed rights are gradually being taken away. professor chung is worried about his beloved hong kong. he wants to show us how the city has changed over the last few years in his view for the worse. chum has been teaching sociology had hong kong s technical unit. city finale thirty years he points out the station serving the high speed rail link to the chinese mainland it s a huge investment by beijing cutting the journey time from hong kong to the neighboring city going joe to forty five minutes station. but of course you
with other women means a lot to her and the work is demanding enough to destructo from welling on the past too much. i love my work it s exhausting but i d never give it up and you know what i feel free here i can say this is my market no one is telling me what to do has to be no one is interfere and. as the day draws to a close as a second wind promising bargain prices to attract a few lost customers. i know. july first one thousand nine hundred seven marked the end of hong kong s one hundred fifty year history as a british colony and the beginning of china s governance of the city. since then hong kong has retained its status as a special administrative region but china has slowly tightened its control.
a place that journalist would come to when they got kicked out of china or kicked out of indonesia or kicked out of anywhere in southeast asia hong kong was always this kind of free holiday and if hong kong was now starting to kick out a foreign journalist to me that was a real turning point. himself a foreign correspondent richburg recently caused a real stuff with this article in which he predicts the demise of hong kong and not just because of the expelled journalist oh i think beijing runs everything in hong kong right now there s a place over there called believe office which i think is the defacto power here if i had to guess i would think the local hong kong government gerry lam they probably didn t want to do anything but they were told you have to punish the f.c.c. for having that event. professor chung takes us out of the city he wants to show us the new bridge to issue high and macau. is another symbol of beijing s power and influence. the longest sea crossing on earth linki
also become a symbol for the whole people without a ministry of structure or power but there were a lot of women trial extending call and hong kong is a further further the greater. china. the station is controversial one section effectively came under national chinese control in september mainland police carry out possible checks in full single thora tarion chinese rule in supposedly autonomous hong kong and beijing s influence is growing on the surface everything looks the same but many a worry that beijing wants to turn the troublesome territory of freewheeling hong kong into just another chinese city. passive the job is playing out at the courthouse in west cower leung where leaders of the twenty fourteen umbrella
major cities on the pole river delta built with chinese money but profess a chunk doesn t trust china s leadership. one thing. too is to get people. keeping. the best. people. that beijing has other ideas as the mainland turns up the pressure the sense of freedom in hong kong is gradually being eroded. this leaking global idea as we ascend to the lofty heights of the andes where deforestation of high elevation woodland is a huge problem. villages in peru who are planting tens of thousands of new trees in an effort to combat climate change.