With the Hong Kong government refusing to budge on the pro-democracy movement's core demands (amnesty, inquiry into police violence, and universal suffrage), energy is getting channeled in interesting directions. First reform of district-level politics, and now labor organizing https://t.co/ZQG58WahME
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A lot of the analysis in prestige US publications focuses on the confrontation with China, or Hong Kong's role as a bargaining chip in trade talks, without covering this interesting aspect of the democracy movement. That is a symptom of overlooking excellent local journalists
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I imagine the same pattern holds for Iraq, Iran, France, Chile. Why do we still have a model of conflict journalism that flies Nick Kristof into places for 48 hours when there are so many people who could step up and give American readers real insight?
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I'll use this rant to re-pitch my own list of fantastic voices from Hong Kong: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/lists/hong-kong …. And here is a much fuller list from
@HongKongHermit, with lots of context:https://twitter.com/HongKongHermit/status/1197375495324569602 …Show this thread
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