Shedding light on the HK protests
Netflix's 2017 documentary on Hong Kong's politics of resistance has never felt more relevant
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JOSHUA WONG IS gangly, bespectacled and speaks English with moderate fluency. He looks so young and unassuming that you might never have thought him capable of leading a student protest movement in Hong Kong.
But that's exactly what the teenager did in 2011 when the Chinese government announced its intention to establish a pro-China national education programme in Hong Kong. The government hoped that through the programme, Hong Kong youth would become more patriotic to China.
Wong, who was just 14-years-old then, was having none of it. He started a student activist group called Scholarism to stop the programme, which he saw as a way of indoctrinating the youth of Hong Kong and ultimately curbing free speech. Miraculously, he won the battle - but the war with Beijing was only just starting.
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