Hong Kong Erupts

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 30, 2014

Washington Post Beijing correspondent William Wan updates the situation in Hong Kong where protests were met with tear gas on Sunday over issues of civil liberties and free elections under the "one country, two systems" arrangement with mainland China. He's joined by former NPR Beijing correspondent Louisa Lim, author of The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. She wrote an op-ed in the Times about the protests yesterday.

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