hong kong

October 2, 2014

Protests in Hong Kong

October 1, 2014 - Segment 3 - We examine the situation in Hong Kong, where tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors are demanding that China allow them to let Hong Kong residents elect their own leader in 2017, the scheduled date for the city's first elections. With: Eli Friedman, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University and the author of the recently published book Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.