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Are Hong Kong's dreams of democracy dead? | BBC News

https://youtu.be/XtY7eJVrgOQ?si=qCK1wkIN5qWY7EI_

Glossary

1. Jimmy Lai 지미 라이, 홍콩의 미디어 거물이자 민주주의 운동가

2. Celia 실리아, 팟캐스트 공동 진행자 및 중국 특파원 이름 

3. Giordano 지오다노, 지미 라이가 세운 홍콩 의류 브랜드 

4. Next Digital 넥스트 디지털, 지미 라이 소유의 홍콩 상장 미디어 회사

5. Apple Daily 애플 데일리, Next Digital의 타블로이드 신문

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Speaker A:
Today we're discussing China's crackdown on Hong Kong's dreams of democracy. 
Jimmy Lai, the media tycoon and activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. 
To discuss this, I've got my fellow presenter and longtime China correspondent, Celia alongside me. Celia, hello. Thank you so much for joining us. So, tell us a bit about Jimmy Lai and his rise to prominence, a real rags to rich's story.


Speaker B:
Absolutely. We talk of Jimmy Lai because of his stance on democracy and Hong Kong, but actually if you go back in time, he's been a name in Hong Kong for decades.
 
That's because he's kind of the definition of a self-made man.

So he was actually born in mainland China and he fled China right before the communist revolution.
He arrived in Hong Kong and the myth is that he arrived with just a bar of chocolate, nothing else. 
He was 12. He went to go and work in a clothing factory as a child laborer and spent years there working his way up to become a manager of a clothing factory.

And then famously, he took his year-end bonus from working in the factory and put it towards a defunct factory of his own. And he started his own clothing line and grew it into this absolutely massive brand that still exists today, Giordano.
It's in 30 countries. 
He became the very definition of a Hong Kong success story. 
That's something that's always been prized in Hong Kong.

But then he decided to turn his attention to politics. He sold a stake in Giordano and moved to establish what went on to become the biggest listed media company in Hong Kong, Next Digital. 
At the heart of Next Digital was this newspaper called Apple Daily, which was the most read newspaper in Hong Kong. 
It was kind of like this tabloid newspaper. It loved to poke fun at the authorities. 
At the heart of it was constant questioning, constant push that when Hong Kong was handed back from the UK back to China, there was a promise that it would move towards democracy. That at one point everybody in Hong Kong would get a vote and this was a promise that the Chinese authorities had made to the British when Hong Kong was handed over. 
Apple Daily and Jimmy Lai never forgot that promise. 


Speaker A:
And then he became a huge critic of the Chinese government and organized a lot of protests which you covered a lot during your time there.


Speaker B:
Yeah. I wouldn't say he necessarily organized them, but he was definitely one of the people who fueled them through his media company because he was such a well-known very wealthy critic.