if the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they will not commit any or fencers under this piece of national legislation. then i can do the same. hour so it is not a question of need standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead and serve in our introduction we mentioned sort of the popular out tick tock announcing major changes to its operations in hong kong what more do we know about the. well that's clearly some concern from a number of the social media platforms of the video platform forms and the large tech companies under these new police powers or tick tock i said that in light of the recent events they're going to stop operations in hong kong and i should clarify that the tick tock was launched by china based a company called bike dance but it has 2 arms one of those arms is based on the mainland the other is referred to as a tick tock of what we know globally. and that some believe that the i would certainly tick tock believes that these new laws could force these

if the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they will not commit any often says under this piece of national legislation that i can do the same. so it is not a question of me standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead sarah clarke has more on the implementation of the new law. the national security committee has held its 1st meeting in hong kong overnight and it was chaired by the city's chief executive and it was also attended by beijing's top officials here in hong kong now it's announced a sweeping new powers have been granted to police and authorities and some of those powers include being able to write a premis without a warrant and this is being granted only under exceptional circumstances the city security chief can also apply to courts to freeze or confiscate property belonging to suspects or social media and internet firms they've also been included in these sweeping new laws they've been ordered to delete electronic messages or content deemed a threat to nation

subject i want to bring in william young he's a journalist and vice president of taiwan foreign correspondents club i was reported extensively from hong kong and he's joining us on skype from taiwan as always thank you very much indeed for being with us why is it that hong kong seems so important to international media particularly. so hong kong has been serving as the window for international media outlets into china for its decades because of its high degree of autonomy and also its respect for freedom of press has a very long tradition of respecting a diversifying its press freedoms and that has been used as a very important way for the international audience to really learn about china through the kooris been based in hong kong in recent in recent years we have seen incidents where journalists are being expelled on the grounds of either supporting but hosting were independent politicians during the 8 public talks and this time around at the new york times has in fact a confirmed one of its staff who used to work in china was tonight to reveal all of that's what bees are up by the hong kong auth

government i spoke to william yan he is a journalist and also the vice president of taiwan foreign correspondents club he says sure young ones recent criticism attracted a lot of attention and it was only a matter of time until china reacted. ever since he published those series of articles criticizing of the chinese government is jumping is handling of the agenda make it has been a looming at the back of many of the chinese observers mind that there will come a point when the chinese government decides to act and detain in reston he has been very outspoken since 2018 criticizing the abolishment of the presidential term and also later on other serious moves that xi jinping has been trying to do to consolidate to date has power and he's articles and consider as one of the most of the retailers critique on the chinese government and also xi jinping itself so a lot of the liberals and also critiques of the chinese communist party has been viewing him as one of the most influential intellectual ever sins of the deceased. nobel peace prize laureate illusional or because of the same way that he's willing to

if the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they were not commit any officers under this piece of national legislation then i can do the same. so it is not a question of me standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead. on the implementation of the new law the national security committee has held its 1st meeting in hong kong overnight and it was chaired by the city's chief executive kerry lam it was also attended by beijing's top officials here in hong kong now it's announced a sweeping new powers have been granted to police and authorities and some of those powers include being able to write a premis without a warrant and this is being granted only under exceptional circumstances the city security chief can also apply to courts to freeze or confiscate property belonging to suspects or social media and internet firms they've also been included in these sweeping new laws they've been ordered to delete electronic messages or content deemed a threat to national security the po

if the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they will not commit any or fences under this piece of national legislation then i can do the same. so there's not a question of need standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead we're hearing the social media giants are having some effect as well. but there's a lot of concern from a number of video platforms and a large tech giants you mentioned earlier tick tock tick tock of said that in light of the recent events and the invoking of this national security law they'll be stopping operations in hong kong and i should differentiate between the 2 arms of tick talk it was launched by china based company so that the mainland boats but there's the international arm and that's the one we know is to talk and that's the one that operates internationally and the app that we use in hong kong that some believe that these new laws that force the tech companies to disclose personal and sensitive data to the government and to talk it said tha

the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they were not any off . national legislation. then i can do the same. so it is not a question of me standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead. but with you sir we lost you very briefly just before we went to korea let's continue to talk making major changes saying we'll create the territory in facebook and twitter to say the paulding cooperation with hong kong please use room from asian tell us more about them. well there's certainly some concern from a number of the social video platforms in the social media giants as well as the tech giants you mentioned in light of the recent events it said that it will stop its operations. in hong kong i should differentiate this particular operation it's a whole it's based on china based company that's called but that's but it has 2 operations the 2nd is it's international and that's what we refer to as tick talk and that's the app at the works here and works globally now some believe tha

can now speak to william yes he is a journalist and also the vice president of taiwan's foreign correspondents club he joins us now via skype from taipei william let me start by asking if you're surprised by these events when it comes to mr sure. this is actually not a very surprising move ever since he published those series of articles criticizing of the chinese government is handling of the agenda make it has been a looming at the back of many of the chinese observers mind that there will come a point when the chinese government decides to act and do to rest him he has been very outspoken since 28 in criticizing the abolishment of the presidential term and also later on other serious moves that xi jinping has been trying to do to consolidate his power and he's articles and consider as one of the most authoritative critique on the chinese government in those who seek to solve why samus to show his friends have also certainly not been surprised at all and mr scherer himself kept to a bad with close on the truth brushing on the front door for when they came for him i think had also been barred from

if the foreign correspondents club or reporters in hong kong can give me 100 percent guarantee that they will not commit any or fences under this piece of national legislation then i can do the same. so it is not a question of need standing here to give you a guarantee of what you may or may not do in the days and weeks and years ahead. that the tech companies they fear that these new laws will force it companies to disclose and hand over key per store and sensitive information to track the china government at tick tock you mentioned earlier it's noted that in light of the recent events and these new national security doors it will stop all operations in hong kong now it should state that there are 2 arms of tick tock there's a milan boats but there's also the international brand and that's the tick tock operation that happened happens off globally as well as in hong kong and i want to allow that to be sold in stores in hong kong from now now other social media has also suspended its operations in light of these new national security laws we've got facebook we've got what's app we've got

club has been adjourned.>> good night everybody. >> thank you. here's a look at some publishing industry news, author and foreign correspondent christopher dickey diedge of 68. he was the author of seven books including a memoir of his relationship with his father former poet laureate james dickey who authored the best-selling novel deliverance. joanna cole author of the children's education series the magic school bus also died earlier this month ms. cole created the series in 1986 which followed a group of schoolchildren on fantastical trips led by their teacher miss rizal. the books were developed into an animated television program that airs on pbs for 18 years. joanna cole died at the age of 75. in other news, lisa lucas has been named the new publisher of pantheon and shocking part of the random house publishing group. ms. lucas had been the director of the national book foundation for the past four years. also in the news, mpd bookscan provided a list of the best-selling print books for the first half of the year. six of the top 10 are nonfiction titles including john bolton's memoir of his time in the trump administration robin d'angelo and

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