More nuance needed: communicating the Hong Kong protests

Monday, 23 September 2019 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Complex, critically important, but also erroneous issues are being raised by the coverage of the on-going Hong Kong protests. And added to the mix is the Australian media's ramping up of China paranoia with incessant reports of alleged foreign interference in some of the nation's major institutions. Yang Chen is a writer and policy analyst at China Matters and this week he unpacks the multiple layers of history, culture and politics framing the ways in which the Hong Kong crisis is being discussed and communicated.