From the New York Times unworkable borrow. This is the daily today I know celebrated seventy years of Communist party signs of pageantry pride and unity in Beijing were met with fire bombs, rubber bullets and mass protests in Hong Kong. My colleague, Natalie Kitchen speaks with China, corresponded Javier Hernandez about a day of historic.

Contrast it's Wednesday October. Second, heavier take us back to a few weeks ago. When you get this knock at your door. It's Saturday morning, I'm in my home in Beijing just relaxing, and I get a call from downstairs saying that there is an officer from the belgian Police Department and he wants to discuss something with you and in a moment I didn't really know what you want to talk about, whether it was an article written you know. Sometimes we get visits from the police, but this case. I really had no idea, and so I was my brain and before I knew it, the knock was at my door

They opened it up and it was officer was young and he was a veteran of the police department. He had a nice smile but also looks kind nervous, and he asked do you know about the national day celebrations endear well as corresponded embedding. Yes, I did. I was sort of been obsessed with them I share their preparations, and so it's this yearly event where China celebrates its birthday, where there is often a lot of activities going on. But this year was the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and so it was an extra special year it was like the biggest event of the year or even the decade for the Communist Party, and there are playing this huge military parade. They would crown She didn't king as the indomitable

leader of China, and so it seem like I was gonna be a particularly sensitive year, but why is he at your door asking if you know about this? liberation. Well, he wanted me to leave. He basically said you have no choice, you need to leave. Armed police are going to be stationed inside your home for four days low. Why would the police need to take over your apartment for this parade? Will I've been asking myself that a lot lately- and I don't think, there's a clear answer, but I think it has to do with this obsession with security. That's spread throughout China in recent years, and this fear that something could go wrong. This is a meticulously rehearsed extravaganza

This is something that is planned to every detail. They bear rehearsing for months, and everyone here knows that they're gonna be on tv and I think, there's probably a lot of fear on that stage. If anything goes wrong, and so I think they were just been extra, careful, wanted to minimize any risk and kicked me out? So where do you go so I stated my apartment a few more weeks. Every we can, though, the party was having these mass rehearsals for the parade, and so they force stay in my room under curfew. While they held these rehearsals, and I was told to close my curtains promptly at eight p m and the US, kept checking in on me to see what my plans were- and I didn't really know so- I kind of just put them off for a while and then eventually I had to make a decision. So I decided to go to Taipei where I have family and watch the parade from there

so it starts about any- am, and you see thousands of soldiers come out holding the chinese flag, many holding huge rifles weapons are rolling out one by one. We see supersonic Once we see unmanned underwater vehicles, there are intercontinental ballistic missiles. Here, last Whitman Forty one nuclear testing down there. You see thousands of soldiers come out, holding the chinese flag and their work

came down a huge red carpet, these columns of soldiers dressed in white and black and green, and their walking toward the centre stage where she's thinking is preparing to make a speech and what happens as she jinping takes the state Well, there's this moment where there is an incredible resounding salute throughout the entire tenement square, I think it's a seventy gun salute and they welcome see. Jumping to the stage

yeah, so he walked to the microphone wearing this dark mouse suit and looking rather solemn God involvement. So what I'm waiting for us to hear what he has to say about hunger? Why? Why is that important will were now in the seventeenth consecutive week of protests in Hong Kong? They started back in June. Over opposition to a bill would have allowed extradition to mainland China, but since then, they have more of an escalated into this broader fight for democracy and for civil liberties in Hong Kong and throughout this period, there's been why

voice. That's been missing in all this, and that is the voice of cheating, and so this was a moment on this very important day where we thought season. King might finally offer more details about his thinking on Hong Kong or how the government might deal with this crisis. Bouchers jungle omen how she fired on one thing: it was clear what his message was, and it was that China not back down, and even he himself said may well be that non governmental woman way back to what I deem it. No power can stop the progress of the chinese people and the chinese nation way by that name

So I assume that message didn't land well with the protesters in Hong Kong, so We always knew there would be big protests on national day in Hong Kong, but she's impinge. Remarks seemed to add to the deep anger that a lot of protesters felt so I headed to Hong Kong to see what was happening on the ground. A lot of best devotees line that for the day- and we are really excited, as does the audience is very simon- is really infectious. So back, do you tell yet arrived? Thank you very much sooner for your reporting on the tenements. Where are you not working a special

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ended in Hong Kong, around three p m and it's kind of Europe. Its really quiet and this is a week when a lot of mainlanders or on holiday, and they were typically comes in a place like Hong Kong but they're not making that trip this year. For obvious reasons, and so I go and walk through this empty airport gone and find are bureaus. Tech managed Kevin Rush? We go over there and he gives me my equipment. What's the equipment

it gives me a gas masks, and so is the straps on in the back yard. You strip zone right here here how my first aid kit- and this is a new kind of business. We just gotta fuel and oppress best, one of those like bright, yellow Haider like construction worker best. So I think that everything. You might need bottled water. So right away upon landing your preparing for this situation to become pretty dangerous right, so the protests have been relatively peaceful, but there have been. These cases were quickly escalates, and certainly that's picked up in the past couple. This amid the airport now and I'm checking my phone and seeing a lot of messages saying that there is a pretty ten stand off in northern. Khan, and so I'm gonna go check it out, and so I headed out gotta new bird. I would be careful

and found my way to the protesters And what did you see in front of me. I could see black clad protesters and they were lighting fires nearer to creating chaos along this particular stretch. The sea is pretty chaotic. There are hundreds of protesters gathering around different stores, that are believed to have a probing stance and they're trying to vandalized the exterior to pollute the inside and take whatever they can and so are you able to talk to any of them other seventeen years, and are you from yes? It was basically all young people.

Said, university in high school does arise as to become the same like mainland China, and I started to talk to them just about why they come out in how they felt about this national day, and the celebrations that we're going on ambition is kind of like birthday is bad. For us. This is not a day that was celebrating like to tell the world in Hong Kong facing serious condition that we need to help this on corners in crisis. They felt that she's in paying on this day should be listening more closely. Concerns and not standing Beijing surrounded by soldiers at a military coup

Are you asking any of them about the escalating violence yeah. I asked them about that. You're, not attacking everybody in this reed we're not destroying without purpose. We have are objective. We know what we are doing so, yes, we legs somehow doing some destroy something, but at the same time, to establish something as well. A lot of them seem to be not really bothers thing. That's phones, because all we destroy you some, maybe a public transport which is an object, no human being so I don't think that's actually

Dave Harland. And that is a kind of the wage. We express our demands and that's a theme that we ve seen repeatedly in these protests, that when it has escalated in these moments and when these protesters have hit the streets and destroyed subway stations and banned lies about property. They felt that divide. It was actually necessary in order to gain the world's attention. I just spoke with one of the young protesters who was setting fire to a subway station and breaking cameras and other things, and I was just asking about What do you say to those people who think that violence and more extreme tactics are under in this movement, and his reaction was pretty much. I have do this in order to show the police that I'm angry you're, not gonna, listen, otherwise,. And in the meantime it sounds like the situation around. You is escalating.

Yes, I look around I'm feeling a tear gas, eyes and now my skin and more and more protestors. Letting fires and facing the front of buildings And then I get news on my phone that the police have shot a teenage demonstrator an eighteen year old, high school students and that's the first time. Months of protest that alive round was used against the protesters and said a clear to me in a moment that this is gonna, be big news for the protesters and might change things so videos or to circulate showing the protesters In short, a very close range and a lot of people are posing photos,

supposedly showing is being shot in the left. Shoulder and bleeding and in these videos you say his name had to say, time, there's also videos showing the protesters attacking the police, and so we reach this moment where these graphic photos are being shared, clearly inflaming the protesters and the police are also firing back defending their response. At that moment. I remember this. Just Russia, people coming toward me almost like a stampede and These protesters running away from a crowd of about thirty forty police officers or holding riot gear shields impotence, and they were,

basically clearing the area, and so I run with the protesters and then find shelter and watch what happens from the side. So how do you feel about This young man was shot with alive boy. Just is not acceptable

He bore a livid, the police, to trying to kill them, they're not trying to solve the problem by just one bade them up vicious wander. They just want to put them behind bars. They just want to kill them. They tell me that the shooting of this teenager for them is a direct assault on everything that they believe in daily. Armed with any weapon. Victor just got sticks and things and the bullies got Martha body armor. They got guns, leaving kinds of guns and issues to rush into should that students and have they have a lot of non lethal weapon like peppers, gray and then things you choose to use a space, though they should

his chest didn't know trying to stop anything there, not trying to stop the riot from happening. They are pushing down to riots and for a lot of them it kind of makes them feel like the need to fight even harder. I feel just we are angry angry, so we do that once a year yeah- I guess you- and so will I see on the ground- is evil rushed back to the very same story. Where they were vandals? asean and lighting fires and do the exact same thing all over again. It really is where you feel like the anger, is unleashed and prompting people to be much more aggressive than they ever would be. We can't we can get it out

Heavier I'm strutted this scene in Hong Kong is such a stark contrast to the pageant tree and Korea. Murphy of the parade in Beijing, and I wonder what you make of that. I think this was their parade in many ways. This is the message in the it's that they wanted to be seen around the world. Their goal was really to overshadow whatever was happening to me doing and in many ways they achieve that. This was a huge embarrassment for the Communist Party. It just remind

people that Hong Kong, as is chaotic, that it's not under control, that choosing pings on the sale of all control and power is perhaps not as strong as as it seems. What you seem to be saying is that there was a deliberate effort by the protesters to seize the narrative here on the national day demonstration exactly they wanted to show the world that day control the narrative in Hong Kong. Of course, that's a bit optimistic on their part, but in this moment they felt that the only thing they could do was to go out on the streets

to create chaos, and I hope that the world would watch as when I talk to allow these protesters. I would point to the example of the United States or other countries in saying that the most important thing is to Keep the pressure on China and the only way to work with China is the test China and to push China becoming increasingly aggressive towards now, whether its through violence or other acts, is the only way that they can achieve their goal and sustain this movement. They feel like provoking. China is their only option right for a lot of them. They see this as their last opportunity to stand up to Beijing

and if you like, if they dont, do it now that China might attempt to destabilize and squash this movement entirely, and so before that happens, they want to stand up to she, Jim King, to stand up to China and to say we're gonna fight and we're going to try to attract the world's attention to stop whatever might happen have you thank you so much for staying up so late to talk to us. Thank you I'll, be right back. This episode is supported by a K chain Rowan.

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