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 about a parliament in exile, we think about government in exile because they are supposed to go hand in hand. and for now, ijust don t think we have the soil for that kind of institution, like, we need to have a legitimate origin, we need to have recognition of different states, international bodies. i think our efficacy work isjust far away from addressing that field. so if there were an effort in coming months to set up this notional hong kong parliament in exile, you would want no part of
the fight for more democratic rights and a respect for one country, two systems in hong kong seem like, if i may say so, relatively small beer. if we look at the predicament of taiwan and hong kong, we see the same origin of threat the authoritarian expansion of the chinese communist party. i don t think paying attention to taiwan really makes hong kong look small or look unimportant. eventually, hong kong is a very important hub and it has a lot of, well, signals about china and countries still pay attention to it. and i think as long as we can use any of these examples to remind anyone in the world that there is a growing authoritarianism from china and we have to step up to stop them, i think that s a good course. president xi uses nationalism. nationalism is a very important motivating factor
to the table, you can ever win the struggle you are engaged in. you said not long ago, it may take me decades to return to hong kong. i may no longer look young, i may go back with grey hair, but i definitely will be back. do you honestly believe that? i honestly believe that. it is a matter of how much drive that we have for now, especially.regardless of how real that kind of democratic 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.
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 about a parliament in exile, we think about government in exile because they are supposed to go hand in hand. and for now, ijust don t think we have the soil for that kind of institution, like, we need to have a legitimate origin, we need to have recognition of different states, international bodies. i think our efficacy work is just far away from addressing that field. so if there were an effort in coming months to set up this notional hong kong parliament in exile, you would want no part of it? well, for me, i m part of the hong kong community, but i will work on the other fronts other than that, because there are opportunity calls, like if i m fully involved in this project which i think, f
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. nathan law, thank you very much indeed forjoining me again on hardtalk. thank you so much. thank you very much. hello. a burst of summer warmth for thursday, with temperatures widely getting into the 20s why? we ve got a ridge of high