New Hong Kong: Is The City Still Free? | Insight | CNA Documentary

Do you remember how how the cocky westerners used to talk about how authoritarian Singapore is? No press freedom? Now there is the quesiton: Is Singapore free?

LOLS.. I heard many youth migrated to UK and now they're jobless..well..they can enroll themselves as protesters in UK though..good job for them and good luck..

God bless Hong Kong 🇭🇰

i always wonder that why HK people never asked British Colonial government for democracy as they ask mainland China for it?

Let me see, how about the internal security acts in Malaysia and Singapore? I am sure there are numerous other legislations on national security in the US, UK, Australian and Europe too.

This documentary only tells one side of the story. As a retired Hong Kong person, I have the luxury to watch several TV direct broadcasts every day from 2019 - 2020. The scenes I watch were much different from those reported in this video, obviously, it is being selected with a political purpose. The interviewees appearing on-screen were again selected with bias.

My advice for our audients is that "you need to understand more before you take what is reported here for granted."

Remarks: GeoPolitics are more complex than an average person can imagine.

CNA as a part of Singapore Public Broadcasting, what can we take away from your report here compare to what Singapore democratic and national security law historic facts to now? And how will you compare with the late Singapore founder leader historic success in building up Singapore progress to the Singapore people and society which also under a very strict Law in controlling and directing the Singaporean way of life and opposition parties members were put in jail too? As I think LKY did a great job and is one the political leaders in Asia. Will CNA be allow doing a same report on your late founding father LKY and the Singapore government ?

They ran the mic cable through a record player and into the camera for extra authenticity.

I once considered moving there, but I will never go back to Hong Kong, the life has been crushed out of it. RIP HK

No one talks about how these riots helped a murderer walk free the streets of Hk after murdering his gf in Taiwan

I like this program.

HK having security laws similar to the USA. Pls compare the security laws in USA. Which country would allow secessionist activities and allowing a foreign imperial power to intervene in part of their country?

Give them democratic capitalism they complain market exploitation.
Give them socialism, they complain freedom restriction.

Its really Funny as the City of Singapore is Far more Restrictive and Draconian when Compared to Hong Kong to judge whether Hong Kong is still free. Reminds me of Al Jazeera that is a Feudal Kingdom network TV judging Freedom level of Countries far far more progressive than itself.

a lot of negative comments here. I was a Hong Kong resident and lived there for 13 years. i attended the July 1 protests for over ten years. The zeitgeist that was the HK democracy movement was, in my mind, the most purely intended, absolutely principled movement, and a movement with incredibly massive support that got nothing. HK could have presented to mainland China a model for a better social form and legal system that could take root there. China could have seen that civil society and contented citizens expressing themselves freely could happen within a Chinese city. However, they instead gave in to the traditional Chinese fear expressed in the first lines of the classic novel The Three Kingdom - "a nation too long apart longs to come together, a nation too long together will fall apart". the fear that one crack will bring the whole house of cards down. true enough though, if you all HK to be a free society, it will come about in the mainland too, as it rightly should

No matter which country we are talking about, secessionist activities are not allow, it is considered to be a violation to the national security of that country. Sounds like some of the HK people want to start an independent moment and don't seems to understand the consequences of their actions. Free does not means people can do whatever, you still have to act within the law, if not all action will be considered lawless.

It might be a good thing for these hkr to go aboard to realize the reality.

Do Hongkong has freedom under British rule before 1997…??

I didn’t realize how free was Hong Kong, until the rioters forced us lockdown in 2019. It is not the freest moment of Hong Kong, but at least I feel safer now. No security no freedom.

I well remembered when rioter is throwing stone at police and setting fire everywhere, CNA report those as peaceful protestor on the very same day.