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Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters. Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.

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The ongoing protests in Hong Kong represent a fundamental rejection of the "one country, two systems" framework, driven by a younger generation that feels increasingly alienated from mainland China. While the initial trigger was a controversial extradition law, the movement has evolved into a broader struggle for democ...