The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Michael Davis. Michael C. Davis, formerly a professor at Hong Kong University, helps us understand the further decline in Hong Kong these days, as discussed by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post, in a piece […]
Update on Civil Liberties in Hong Kong (Global Connections)
It’s Getting Worse all the Time. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Michael Davis. Michael Davis helps us understand three major developments in Hong Kong: (1) the “election” of John Lee, (2) the cancellation of the Human Rights Press awards, and (3) the arrests of 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund Trustees […]
Human Rights for the Uyghurs (Global Connections)
Is China Telling the Truth About them. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Henryk Szadziewski. Henryk Szadziewski, UH graduate student, will help us understand the plight of the Uyghurs in China. Most recently, the IOC has behaved deplorably in the Olympics. It has been difficult to reconcile their rhetoric of […]
How we Have Strayed from the Liberal World Order (History is Here to Help)
What Can we Do to Get Back to it. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Peter Hoffenberg. Historian Peter Hoffenberg helps us understand how things have changed since 1945 and how we have strayed from the days of the Marshall Plan and the creation of the United Nations and the liberal world […]
Hong Kong: How Beijing Perfected Repression (Global Connections)
Where Can Hong Kong Go Now. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Michael Davis. Beijing has brutally advanced the 2047 return of Hong Kong to China, and it has changed the open character of the city to full-tilt repression in the space of only a few years. Civil liberties and […]