This episode, we take measure of the economic impact of China's stringent laws in Hong Kong and then take a deep dive into the social and political costs of Beijing's crackdown on the special administrative region.

First, digital editor Waj Khan lays out the big picture: What ails the relationship between Beijing and Hong Kong? (02:25 ) Next, business and markets reporter Jack Stone Truitt crunches the numbers of the economic impact of the crackdown (05:49 ). Then, Asia Stream correspondent Monica Hunter-Hart reports on how activism, academia and the media have been affected (10:19 ), interviewing former Hong Kong legislator and student protest leader Nathan Law (13:03 ), professor Isabella Ng (18:16 ) and journalist Lam Ying-pong (24:18 ). Finally, our deputy Big Story editor, Alice French, reports with the weekly Tokyo Dispatch on the Hong Kong diaspora as she talks to Pak Yiu (29:22 ).

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Asia Stream is hosted by Wajahat S. Khan, our digital editor and executive producer, and produced by Monica Hunter-Hart and Jack Stone Truitt.

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