Back to Square one? Tiananmen veterans in Hong Kong

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Back to Square one? Tiananmen veterans in Hong Kong
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:24:19
• Published: 2019-10-16 12:05

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.

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