Uploaded September 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
October is just around the corner, marking the one year anniversary of when students and other civic-minded leaders took to the streets of Hong Kong, pursuing universal suffrage and standing firming against a Beijing plan they said amounted to creating a fake democracy.
In May of this year, the Beijing plan was voted down in a bizarre turn of events, that saw the pro-Beijing members of Hong Kong’s legislature leave chambers before the vote was taken, and thus handed victory to the pan-democrats.
But as we near the anniversary of the so-called umbrella revolution, what’s been going on since then? Yes, student leaders like Joshua Wong have faced charges for their roles in the protests, but what have the pan-democrats been up to? For that, I rang up Emily Lau, chair of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and asked her.
After listening to our conversation, what do you think is the next step for Hong Kong? What needs to be do, if at all possible, to move the idea of universal suffrage forward?
Asia Now is a special feature of the Asia News Weekly podcast.
If you enjoyed the podcast, please share it with your friends and if you haven’t, subscribe. Subscribing is free and when you do, the next episode is delivered automatically to you. You can subscribe on our website, AsiaNewsWeekly.net, or in your favorite podcast application.
You’ll be able to keep up with news from the
Connect with me on social media and the internet!
e-mail: podcast@asianewsweekly.net
Twitter: twitter.com/SteveMillerANW
Facebook: facebook.com/asianewsweekly
Podcast: asianewsweekly.net
October is just around the corner, marking the one year anniversary of when students and other civic-minded leaders took to the streets of Hong Kong, pursuing universal suffrage and standing firming against a Beijing plan they said amounted to creating a fake democracy.
In May of this year, the Beijing plan was voted down in a bizarre turn of events, that saw the pro-Beijing members of Hong Kong’s legislature leave chambers before the vote was taken, and thus handed victory to the pan-democrats.
But as we near the anniversary of the so-called umbrella revolution, what’s been going on since then? Yes, student leaders like Joshua Wong have faced charges for their roles in the protests, but what have the pan-democrats been up to? For that, I rang up Emily Lau, chair of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and asked her.
After listening to our conversation, what do you think is the next step for Hong Kong? What needs to be do, if at all possible, to move the idea of universal suffrage forward?
Asia Now is a special feature of the Asia News Weekly podcast.
If you enjoyed the podcast, please share it with your friends and if you haven’t, subscribe. Subscribing is free and when you do, the next episode is delivered automatically to you. You can subscribe on our website, AsiaNewsWeekly.net, or in your favorite podcast application.
You’ll be able to keep up with news from the
Connect with me on social media and the internet!
e-mail: podcast@asianewsweekly.net
Twitter: twitter.com/SteveMillerANW
Facebook: facebook.com/asianewsweekly
Podcast: asianewsweekly.net
