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Back to Square one? Tiananmen veterans in Hong Kong
Back to Square one? Tiananmen veterans in Hong Kong
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Amid the growing disquiet in Hong Kong are a few survivors of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. These once-moderate voices are changing their minds about whether the protesters should keep provoking the Chinese government. Even as a currency crisis unfolds, Lebanon’s central bank is keeping things stable—so far. The bank has a solid history, in part because of one man who guarded a pile of Ottoman gold. And an effort to wrangle the dialects of the Canadian Arctic. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Oct 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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