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Can China Outlaw Global Activism?

NPR

In The Moment … July 9, 2020 Show 855 Hour 2

Famously stated in George Orwell's 1984, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." China's control of the narrative surrounding Hong Kong's relation to the county is now reaching further than its own borders. A new provision to Article 38 of their national security law now applies to those in the United States. But, can a foreign country tell the citizens of another what to do? Joining us to clarify is Tim Schorn Ph.D., associate professor of political science and director of International Studies at the University of South Dakota.

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