10 Years Later: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution

[@00183050]

It hurts every time when looking back

[@adriankwok0331]

Yep. Embarassing so many failed as parents to stop their kids from running around destroying property, they were still stinking of breastmilk talking about "Bringing glory to Hong Kong" hilarious stuff

[@nonbaplease]

For those not familiar what happened to hongkong. Pepole just exercised their civil rights of protest. Those against the law are the majority of hk~ unlike in the us, u got vote to choose yr president n the president can be impeached. With that, some violent incidents happened in the US maybe refer to riot. But what happened in hk were not, they just out of options

[@davidwong2193]

I am here with you.

[@Эмир-07г]

2014 0:15 vs 0:16 2019 0:18

[@makuikui]

光復香港　時代革命

[@lukeecle117]

go live in the uk or usa then, they like very much banana men

[@李华-m9p]

整天空喊口号有何用啦，你这不和品客一个行为吗🤣

[@Deep_Dark_Fantasy999]

@@李华-m9p 食煤油食到你傻咗?

[@TaigiTWeseDiplomat--Formosan]

Ａｂｋｈａｚ works!

[@abcjj616]

@@lukeecle117 wtf are you on about

[@leemankei]

It's a painful memory that Hongkongers will never forget nor forgive.

[@heyhi2413]

Thank you Time for making a documentary after 10 years of the movement 💛 Never forget Never forgive

[@jonidjuanda5013]

Time magazine always being western propaganda on anti China. And thanking them should be like a traitor that let westerner to knock and rob ur home. Is being colonised by white people has democracy??? Just the last 10 years hongkong being allowed to have opposition. Did u choose ur governor??think twice.

[@constanceyip3579]

Thanks TIME never forget us HongKongers

[@sueyip4137]

Thank you everyone for standing up!!! Never forget.

[@dhdarr]

光復香港，時代革命

[@adriankwok0331]

on9

[@dhdarr]

@@adriankwok0331 dllm

[@jackytang3683]

你已触法，尽快自首

[@Alan-megan]

idiot

[@yyyynn04]

on9……

[@Gumaimon]

勇敢的香港人！！❤❤

[@qvaerensveritatem9064]

Chinese everywhere in the Mainland continue to stand up for democracy and true HK values. The pursuit of freedom was shut down, but never forgotten.

[@3066961]

in 90s, many had already predicted what'd happen today

[@robocop581]

Predict what? You're too ignorant to see reality

[@misiek_xp4886]

@@robocop581 You are too ignorant if you think you know the "true" reality.

[@RALnMeow]

Thank you Times making this video

[@hko2006]

RIP Hong Kong

[@robocop581]

Yawn

[@nonbaplease]

For those not familiar what happened to hongkong. Pepole just exercised their civil rights of protest. Those against the new law are the majority of hk~ unlike in the us, u got vote to choose yr president n the president can be impeached. With that, some violent incidents happened in the US may referred to riot. But what happened in hk were not, they just out of options

[@krislokki7355]

It’s a painful memory that still hits hard deep inside my heart… will never forget😢

[@Sebastian1998844]

Let Hong Kong serve as a warning for Taiwan and the strongest argument for why Taiwan should not accept annexation, as Hong Kong did. Taiwan needs to stay strong and fight for its independence, and we in the West must help them so they can enjoy freedom, democracy, and civil rights, and likewise, the right to criticize their own government without fear of disappearing. Taiwan must remain free and politically distant from mainland China 🤝🗽

[@jasonjean2901]

Yes, partner with the west and fight the good fight. Then enjoy all the benefits Ukraine and Afghanistan have; a completely destroyed country and a west which doesn't really want to try hard to help you for any significant length of time. All in the name of ignorance. Hong Kong was never promised "autonomy". It was promised a different system, and the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which western media claims to reference, stated that China will be able to have national security in Hong Kong (hence, the National Security Law violated no promises).

[@robocop581]

Load of crap

[@777cpsf4]

@Sebastian1998844 Great Swbastian, HK waiting for u to come over to free HK.

[@777cpsf4]

Great Sebastian. HK is waiting for u to come over to free HK.

[@feverpitchxx]

@@robocop581 Taiwan number one

[@constanceyip3579]

Never forget, never forgive !

[@zoe1737]

Those people are well educated and care about HK, but ccp and hk government put them in jail or force them to leave. 😢

[@chloewong300]

Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong

[@akholic1594]

still will cry when seeing or recalling the situation.

[@CatCat-xs2db]

Not easy for all HongKongers in the past 10 years. Life must go on, but meanwhile all of us hide the painful memories and emotion in our broken heart…

[@AppleDailyFriends]

Thank TIME for the report🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💛🍎

[@thomaswck-mv2mf]

Thank you TIMES for reporting after 10 years. Never forget. It is a painful memory.

[@Tom-is5ro]

thanks for all who are still fighting for the freedom and human rights of hongkongers.

[@Gimmeabreakman]

00:00:00 In 2014 protesters took to the streets demanding a more transparent election in Hong Kong. They carried umbrellas as a form of passive resistance and occupied major roadways for 79 days. The 2014 umbrella movement was followed by the 2019 anti-extradition law protests. 10 years ago I was a student activist, a student leader. So now I'm a political exile, uh, like mostly based in the US. My name is Ivan (Cheuk Yiu). In 2014 I am the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of students. My name is Leo (Tsz Hong) 2014 is like a enlightenment to me. 00:00:53 In 2019 I assist in building Roblox then I become a driver to transport those protesters. I'm Jackie Chen. I've been a social worker for about 20 years. I was arrested and charged with rioting on, uh, 31st August 2019. I'm Ron-sing Chan. I'm, uh, journalist in Hong Kong. Many protesters were motivated by an expectation that the former British colony was supposedly guaranteed political autonomy for 50 years following its return to China in 1997. This arrangement was called one country two systems, but the crackdown from Beijing was severe and life has changed for many involved in the movements. 00:01:42 So my active participation in encouraging like my fellow students in taking part in like a referendum in different kind of political campaigns and different kind of educational initiative I was then like well persecuted and and being put like behind bars in jail in 2017 for my involvement, uh, in the umbrella movement. I was, uh, pretty much like well pretty much like mentally tortured. Being physically separated with my family, seeing my mom coming into prison visiting me, 00:02:14 Seeing them crying, being heartbroken, uh, coming out from prison. Uh, seeing people in support of like the political prisoners going to the street and also like well the dying down of the movement. Those are also moment for me to reflect on -- like, well, uh, how much personal toll and social toll we will have to, we have to bear as an individual of Hong Kong. So I myself move away from Hong Kong 2018 my pursuit of a doctor degree in the US so that one day I might return to Hong Kong to support my fellow citizens in recapturing the government in a more sustainable way. 00:02:48 I was a nursing student back in 2014. Uh, the point that I changed my road is because when 2019 happened I saw someone very young who were injured. I'm already a nurse at that point when I was off duty. I tried to go out and do some first aid work. You'll be shocked by how young they are. It's quite traumatized when you seeing some young people being beaten. 00:03:19 University campuses became a battleground between the police and protesters. Riot officers tried to clear bunkered students and protesters. Most of them were young people. The Beijing government called the protesters "thugs" and accused them of attempting to turn Hong Kong into an independent or semi-independent political entity. 00:03:44 Then we trying to basically form up a union. 2021 we received, um, letter from other union that they got the same letter in the committee in the union that they got arrest. At that point I decided to leave. When you decided to leave is a decision like abandoned all the friends that in still fighting or staying. 00:04:11 The city has experienced a pronounced exodus. Estimates range as high as 500,000 people. The Hong Kong government has placed million dollar bounties on political activists who have fled overseas. If I have to sum up the past four years since I left Hong Kong, it would be: I the rock bottom. I came to the US in 2020 to seek political asylum, and the hardest time was the waiting for a work permit. I couldn't find a job. I couldn't find a proper place to live I feel like I, uh, I betrayed my friend back in Hong Kong and I start to blame myself eventually I realized that it's just it's just depression. 00:05:01 I received counseling. I was able to connect with other exiles, and I was able to start to heal myself. We had a group of social workers uh we call us: "battle social worker" because in our usual work field, um, we will we always handle different kinds of crisis case. Uh after 12 June 2019, uh, we find that, uh, the motion of police well some police are out of control. Therefore we hope that um to alert the Police to not use excessive force to the people. I was arrest and charged with rioting on 31st August 2011. If I lose the case this time I will go to jail 00:05:52 The government's response seems to be increasingly punitive. Chen said she seem seen many cases of people charged with rioting merely because they showed up at the scene of protests There are more influence on my career. I've seen the Social Worker Registration Board. I had, uh, held my renewel of social worker license. Then no non-governmental organization would would employ me. 00:06:26 This is a winter for the local journalist because, uh, Apple Daily closed. Jimmy Lai and the Senior Management of Apple Daily had been arrested and then close of the Stand News and including two Editors-in-Chief were arrested. It really really, really high risk for Journalist Association at that moment. Chan burned many of his reporter notebooks. And I put all away because if I keep it I'm afraid that they will be collected by somebody. Chan stepped down as head of the Hong Kong journalist Association in 2024. His successor Selena Chang says she was fired from The Wall Street Journal for her role with the organization. 00:07:15 Dow Jones, which publishes the newspaper, refused to comment on individuals. The Hong Kong story is also a global story. The diaspora's efforts, like across different host countries, are critical in defending democracy and those collective efforts would also like a channel back to the future policy making and institution building, the form of government that'll be taking, inheriting like well in Hong Kong where we might be able to return home one day. 00:07:45 There was one time a friend visited me in New York and I told them that, um, if I were passed away in a foreign country I would like them to bring back my ashes to Hong Kong because I would like to die in Hong Kong. I can't travel overseas, yeah, because my passport was taken away by the courts. I also need to prepare my mother to accept that, uh, if I am lost in the retrial but, uh, I'm lucky that I have five years to help her to prepare. People who actively involved before we have lots of trauma. We may need to explore some healing. 00:08:32 For me, actually, to live a normal life, you kind of hiding those memories, and hiding those emotions. I have phobia on pepper spray, for example. I may dream dreamed, uh, I was in my secondary school and I saw my, uh, students that they trying to protest on the road and get got the attack from the, uh, tear gas. I'm going be honest. I I don't have any views on the future. Honestly I don't have it. I'm just trying to survive day by day. I still hope that when we cover the news we can also cover what what happened and trying to make the people don't forget them.

[@doogiechen2726]

Free Hong Kong and Tibet

[@JohnSmith-ps7hf]

Hong Kong RIP !🙏

[@pphomeca]

The darkest age of Hong Kong ever…

[@adriankwok0331]

Agreed, foreign influence funding a FAILED colour revolution... Embarassing

[@lukeecle117]

nope, During the British colonial period, Hong Kong people had no democracy, no votes, no right to protest and march, and the rulers of Hong Kong had to be white people appointed by Britain. That was the darkest era for Hong Kong.

[@luichungyan]

Never forgotten

[@adriankwok0331]

yep, always remembered as a FAILED colour revolution plotted and paid for by the united states hahahaha

[@rubyho9351]

Thanks TIME

[@dchoi714]

#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners #hongkong

[@honeyisaac]

so much has changed

[@underscoretor]

Wow. Ten years ago already.

[@TTKT236]

💪💪💪Hong Kong!

[@neilootambo]

From Barcelona, Catalonia. I hope hongkongers will someday be free, don’t ever lose your fight.

[@bukfamily1161]

Thank you TIME

[@thunderskywalker8268]

My friend, a district councillor, is still not being released 🥲

[@chanbryant3251]

The purity of love with the awfully fought back.

[@kaichiuwong9062]

10年！！！

[@annraCHBeeMaru]

2019. A painful memory

[@kangarooloo-x7q]

💛

[@mauriciodiuleilomo7293]

God bless HK

[@yungtso20041]

😢😢

[@mmmmuiiii]

Never forget

[@cw2857]

😭😭😭

[@dchoi714]

Fight for freedom, #standwithhongkong

[@jessetorres8738]

Trivia note: The U.S. game show The Amazing Race has been on for 36 Seasons, & they have been to Hong Kong for 5 of them; 2, 11, 17, 27, & 30.

[@esmond84hk]

Place of the year 2019 Protest of the city Ipround of it Repect to all everyone participate the campaign and had workout

[@andreasc7377]

this short clip mixed up 2014 Umbrella Revolution and 2019 Fight for Freedom Protest

[@jts1702a]

The events aren't separate. The 2019 demonstrations started with the anti-ELAB movement, but persisted because everyone recognizes the root of the problem laid in the lack of government accountability due to the electoral system.

[@adriankwok0331]

​@@jts1702a Exactly, they're not seperate. Both events had mentally inept children roaming the streets thinking they were making change, when in reality they were simply pawns for the west's agenda

[@adriankwok0331]

@@jts1702a yep. They’re not different, both events are brain dead kids following the west’s agenda 😂

[@DannySlay]

jackie chen??

[@tonyyck103009]

bye hk

[@robocop581]

You're a nobody

[@antimime666]

1:00 I'm Jackie Chan😂

[@underscoretor]

😂

[@thereseamyng]

🙏🏻 🥹🥹🥹🫶🏻💪🏻🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🫡

[@alvindurochermtl]

They essentially legitimized the HK government’s enactment of the national security laws. I hope they are happy now that they live overseas claiming political refugees status while the rest of us average people remain in HK bearing the consequences. And don’t even assume that for one second that if somebody isn’t yellow they must be blue. That’s a naive discourse dreamt up by both the yellow and blue camps.

[@thyjackal4156]

That is true. Friends told me some of the former HK students are now living in split rooms, sharing with 4 other people in rented basement in the Toronto Greater Area. Some are working at chinese supermarkets stacking shelves.

[@macau.friend]

Anyone who has some kind of dissatisfaction with the government is now considered yellow, while anyone who says some kind things about the government, however justified, is considered blue. The protests have done nothing but provoking hatred, bigotry and intolerance, ripping the entire society apart

[@Willxdiana]

@@thyjackal4156 nice I got to visit Toronto then.

[@valorzinski7423]

Reality: They lost Hong Kong is just a Chinese city now without foreign influence

[@The.Quinn.Collections]

We lost, but we never surrendered.

[@777cpsf4]

If you can show Britain does not have any security law that governs such anti-govt protest that turned to extreme violence with ppl beaten n public properties damaged, burned n destroyed, I can agree that it's a peaceful protest.

[@Orion-mi4eu]

Hong kong has outranked UK in many conceivable metrices including GDP per capita, HDI, life expectancy etc. they should be looking forward and not backwards.

[@shundi4264]

Well said

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

Not anymore, all the capital and human resources had left. HK will become a shanty town.

[@shundi4264]

@@gurugurumawaru7869 Yes, Britain became rich by stealing from other nations, British museum is the proof.

[@thyjackal4156]

The movement totally ruined Hong Kong. Made things worse for everyone.

[@ondreiii]

@@thyjackal4156 CCP Wumao/little pink detected 🚩

[@ondreiii]

@@ProPlay86 because HK now is just like another city in China, losing its vibrant.

[@tomlee631]

@@thyjackal4156 little pink!!!

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

CCP dog spotted

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

​@@ProPlay86Only because of the CCP though. Xi Jinping is the eastern Putin, just like how Mao Zedong is the eastern Stalin. They plunge the world to hell.

[@Mingbaakmei]

The videos used in this vlog are all 'relatively' peaceful. None show the extreme violence of the rioters where firebombs (hundreds if not thousands) were thrown and projected at the police, nor the injuries to both the police and also to citizens who reproached the rioters. Recent crowd violence in the UK, to a much lesser degree, but still riots, has resulted in speedy, lengthy jail terms for the participants. One rioting crowd's cause was for 'democracy' and the other rioting crowd's cause was against mass migration; so whatever the cause the action by a government, of whatever political party, is to stop the violence, return the streets to a peaceful state for its populace and jail the participating rioters. Both the HK and the UK governments have done just that.

[@hkg207]

First of all, you have no idea what you're talking about. The video refers to the 2014 protests, while you are referring to the 2019 protests. If you can't even make the distinction between the two, you probably shouldn't be making comments on them. Next, who started the violence? When a million people first protested in June, government communications claimed that the protests were "largely peaceful". And yet, dozens of tear gas canisters were fired by the police, and pepper spray and batons were used to disperse the protesters whom the government itself admits to be peaceful. You even see protesters allowing ambulances and fire trucks to pass through while blocking other vehicles. Police infiltrators have been found throwing Molotov cocktails at the police in order to rile up the crowds, and the police took advantage of the protesters' trust, hiding riot police in ambulances and attacking the protesters from behind. This would constitute a war crime if it was conducted during wartime, so why should it be allowed during peacetime? There are also videos of police cars, vans, and motorcycles purposefully driving at protesters in an attempt to run people over, and the police pepper spraying and beating bystanders or people trying to communicate with them. There are photos of police talking to triad members to congratulate them for beating up protesters and also of policemen beating people indiscriminately in trains. Arrested protesters are mistreated, some are disappeared, and some have died under suspicious circumstances. What more evidence do you need? How is this even equal force at all? If anything, it is the police that is using excessive force to put down peaceful protests. Meanwhile, the government continues to shift its narrative from "largely peaceful", to "colour revolution", and now to "black violence". And people like you continue to shill for them.

[@dalikli7001]

Biased story from the TIME, as told by a group of losers. Interesting.

[@finnmurtons8727]

@dalikli7001 how much the CCP pay you for this comment?

[@shundi4264]

Well said.

[@tomlee631]

Did CCP pay you $0.5 RMB to say this comment! Little pink!🤬

[@adriankwok0331]

Yep... Where are these kids now? Either in jail, regretting wasting their time being pawns for the west or they've fled like little rats. It's embarassing that they're even considered to be Chinese, brings a stink to our culture.

[@misiek_xp4886]

Gloria victis

[@jasonchang8601]

More like CIA revolution that failed miserably lmao

[@misiek_xp4886]

Communism ate your brain lol

[@jasonchang8601]

@@misiek_xp4886 Try travelling there today and actually speaking to the locals and see what they think of it. You live under a rock.