Inside Hong Kong’s Airport

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Protesters have flooded Hong Kong’s airport, paralyzing operations and escalating tensions between the semiautonomous territory and Beijing. The protesters are trying to send a message to government officials — and to people in mainland China. Guest: Javier C. Hern?ndez (https://www.nytimes.com/by/javier-c-hernandez), a New York Times correspondent based in Beijing. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily).

Background reading:


Demonstrations led the airport, one of the world’s busiest, to suspend check-ins for two days in a row (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-airport-protest.html?smid=pc-thedaily) this week, causing hundreds of flight cancellations. On Wednesday, some protesters apologized (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/world/asia/hong-kong-airport-protests.html?smid=pc-thedaily) for the disruption.
The unrest is exposing the inherent conflict in Hong Kong’s political system (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-communist-party.html?smid=pc-thedaily) since China reclaimed the territory from Britain in 1997: an effort to unite Beijing’s authoritarianism with civil liberties.
Here’s a guide to what prompted the Hong Kong protests (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-explained.html?smid=pc-thedaily), and a look at how they have evolved.


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