Like its counterparts in the West, the Chinese government is using the pretext of fighting "Islamic extremism" to expand its repressive powers and gain a geostrategic advantage.
Forty years ago, a protest against authoritarian rule in South Korea became an uprising. Hundreds of thousands of protesters battled government troops in the streets. The legacy of the uprising is still contested today.
Ben Hillier was on the ground during the explosive 2019 protests and university occupations in Hong Kong, and again as a new coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan, China, began to spread through the city in early 2020.
