Until blue in the face: Hong Kong’s protests

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Recorded02 Sep 2019

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The territory’s authorities have used live rounds, pepper spray and water cannon with blue dye to mark participants in ever-growing protests. What else might they resort to? The Baltic states, worried about Russian expansionism, are countering the old-school spycraft of the Kremlin’s agents. And, drag acts sashay into the mainstream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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