BBCNEWS HARDtalk August 18, 2020
It is 4 30 a. M. , and it is time to hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The Chinese Government goes to extraordinary lengths to control its own population. Perhaps the most extreme example, xinjiang, where muslim uighur people have faced systematic repression. But the principal of authoritarian control runs much deeper. My guest today is wuer kaixi, a political dissident in exile, part of the 1989 tiananmen generation. He is himself a uighur. Has beijing effectively snuffed out the spirit of tiananmen . Wuer kaixi in taiwan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you fo...