How to make repression work . Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me again, stephen. Well, its a pleasure to have you back in the studio. We talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. Youve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. But your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. What difference has that made . Well, its definitely a step up of the Intimidation Tactics that the chinese and Hong Kong Government has been using. For me, ive been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someones head is completely new. Like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the governments list, its actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, triple of their bounties. B
Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me again, stephen. Well, its a pleasure to have you back in the studio. We talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. Youve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. But your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. What difference has that made . Well, its definitely a step up of the Intimidation Tactics that the chinese and Hong Kong Government has been using. For me, ive been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. Like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the governments list, its actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, triple of their bounties. But the charges, of course, ar
uk prime minister rishi sunak arrived a short while ago. he was greeted by moldovan president maia sandu. and once all of the more than a0 leaders of countries and various organisations had all made it to the venue, mimi castle, they posed for what s known as the family photo. but as you d expect, with plenty to talk about, they didn t stand still for long. you may have seen ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky there standing out through his choice of military fatigues over a suit. he was among the first to arrive earlier this morning and he was also given the first opportunity to address the gathering, warning that russia is an aggressor and needs to be stopped. he said that apart from peace there are only two options for countries which are not in the eu and nato war or russian occupation. every european country that borders russia and that does not want russia to tell them apart should be a former member of the eu and nato. there are only two alternatives to these,
links with china. we just saw, in the recent past, president macron of france, chancellor scholz of germany, making very high profile trips to beijing, wanting to deepen trading ties, despite everything that we ve discussed. how deep is your disappointment? well, i ve criticised a lot of global leaders for not being as assertive as they should be, facing the threat of the chinese communist party, and that shows i am really independent of their influence and i m representing at least a large, significant proportion of hong kong people s opinion. it may also show that your message isn t cutting through and that, in the end, china holds the cards, not least because of its massive and growing economic power. well, isn t it actually quite easy to think that my message doesn t cut through when china has so much power and has so much resources? i m not naive. i m not saying that china doesn t have power they are the most powerful
president macron of france, chancellor scholz of germany, making very high profile trips to beijing, wanting to deepen trading ties, despite everything that we ve discussed. how deep is your disappointment? well, i ve criticised a lot of global leaders for not being as assertive as they should be, facing the threat of the chinese communist party, and that shows i am really independent of their influence and i m representing at least a large, significant proportion of hong kong people s opinion. it may also show that your message isn t cutting through and that, in the end, china holds the cards, not least because of its massive and growing economic power. well, isn t it actually quite easy to think that my message doesn t cut through when china has so much power and has so much resources? i m not naive. i m not saying that china doesn t have power