future is, it s that we don t have any reasons to give up. it s a painful and turbulent journey, but look at me, i m sitting here to do an interview with you. i am really lucky and fortunate. a lot of my fellows who are in hong kong, they re injails, behind bars for years. they still don t have any verdict. their crime isjoining a primary election, speaking up against the chinese communist party, and when you think about that, i don t have any reason to give up just because of, well, china is the largest and most powerful authoritarian country. and it gives me more motivation to do what i m doing because i think doing that, of course, we eventually want to return to a hong kong which is a democratic and free one, but we also have a lot of fellows that are suffering and we need to address that and we want to change that. we have to end there.
that low pressure system has moved off into scandinavia. there could still be a few showers popping up here and there across eastern areas of scotland, northeas england, i think, as we go through the afternoon but lots of dry weather around as well, some sunshine, temperatures rising more widely into the low 20s in celsius. and then we ve got high pressure starting to exert its influence and stalling these weather fronts out in the atlantic, too. so on wednesday it quite a misty, murky start to the day. there will be a lot of low cloud around and of course the winds are very light so that cloud won t break up very easily. it does mean that we if we do see any showers form on wednesday they could be quite heavy and slow moving but temperatures really starting to rise in the south, up to 2a and 25 celsius, and then we draw in more of a south easterly wind. that s going to push some really quite warm air from the near continent our way, so temperatures will be rising, particularly out to
of an initiative which over the next few weeks and months is supposed to roll out a form of online parliament in exile, bringing together. i m not part of it. you re not part of it at all? yeah, no. so you don t believe in it? because i wanted to quiz you on whether you believe that some of the stated aims of this parliament in exile, which will be, of course, a virtual institution, whether you believe that they are the right aims, quoting elmer yuen who, again, is a pro democracy activist who is involved in this initiative he says, the aim is to take down the communists and regain freedom for hong kong. do you share that? well, we are a very diverse community. people can have their advocacy work as they like as long as we have the idea of having a free and democratic hong kong. these initiatives definitely draw a lot of attention and a lot of voice. for me, if we think
whether you look at its currency, its issuing of passports, its financial system, its independentjudicial system, which it still has, you can still tick all of those boxes and say that hong kong is still functioning very different from china. the essence of one country, two systems is not currency. it s about autonomy, democracy and freedom, and those were the promises made in 80s and 90s when there was a draft of basic law and there were discussions after the tiananmen massacre and before the handover. is that what hong kongers really care about most, or do they actually care about the economic vibrancy of hong kong, the stability of hong kong? hong kong still, relatively speaking, is a good place to do business, where people like to travel to do their tourism. that still remains, and hong kongers care about that. well, first of all, the hong kong economy is going downhill and that s why a lot of people left, especially those expats. and secondly. not as many left as you thought wou
where a human rights lawyer in laos, he s almost being extradited back to mainland china. and those are really, like, real cases that makes us fear whether that would happen on us. a recent parliamentary report issued in westminster in the united kingdom said that the british government was failing to address the china threat. they said that the government appeared to have no strategy. even conservative mps, backers of prime minister rishi sunak, said that the british government response to what they perceive to be the growing china threat was weak. do you feel the same way? definitely. we all felt the foreign minister, when he did the address about it, how he d been doing a lot of diplomatic missions to mainland china, also sending a financial minister to hong kong, which had never happened in a few years. these are definitely signals