Professor Rana Mitter comments on protests in Hong Kong

Rana Mitter was interviewed on BBC Radio 4s PM programme (29 September) about the current protests in Hong Kong.

He talked about how the 'Occupy Central' movement and the central authority of Beijing are approaching the current protests from very different perspectives: Beijing sees the consessions towards democracy that it has already granted to Hong Kong as considerable, whereas there are many protesters that identify with the more democratic culture of cities such as Seoul, Tokyo and Singapore who disagree.

You can listen to the programme by clicking here (Rana appears at 36m 50s): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jjz3z

Rana was also interviewed for the same topic for Canadian CTV news. You can view the clip here: http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=454315