Stuart Lau - Brussels - South China Morning Post

<p>Stuart Lau (<a href='https://twitter.com/stuartlauscmp'>@stuartlauscmp</a>) weaves his personal narrative together with the story of Hong Kong seamlessly. He touches on his beginnings in journalism that coincided with the first protests there since Tiananmen, pursuing a key official in the HK handover from the UK to China decades later, his inability as a Hong Konger to become a diplomat (much to the benefit of of the journalism industry), and much more. He also takes us to Cuba and Brussels but always with a bit of HK and China looming in the background. </p> <p>He talks about growing up the son of a Hong Kong native and a mainlander (5:40), his first inklings of journalism as he pursued a law degree (7:05), journalism school and getting his foot in the door of South China Morning Post (10:00), his SCMP days in Hong Kong covering a landmark court case and protests (22:22), a stint at BBC and his move to Brussels with SCMP (34:10), his story about Hong Kongers who migrated to Cuba in the 1950s (52:06), his role in the Panama Papers revelations (58:41), and finally the lightning round (1:04:17).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Stuart's "think piece" on the climate change summit - <a href='http://bit.ly/2wHNyPH'>http://bit.ly/2wHNyPH</a></p> <p>His story on Hong Kong migrants in Cuba - <a href='http://bit.ly/2wGvlSv'>http://bit.ly/2wGvlSv</a></p> <p>One of his Panama Papers stories - <a href='http://bit.ly/32il7Dv'>http://bit.ly/32il7Dv</a></p> <p>Xinhua's English language website - <a href='http://bit.ly/2SSgsVy'>http://bit.ly/2SSgsVy</a></p> <p>New Yorker story on Iranian General Soleimani - <a href='http://bit.ly/32l3S4g'>http://bit.ly/32l3S4g</a></p> <p>David Foster Wallace essay on porn - <a href='http://bit.ly/2PicZxr'>http://bit.ly/2PicZxr</a></p> <p>Jeremy Bowen's "War Stories" - <a href='https://amzn.to/2uWEWUN'>https://amzn.to/2uWEWUN</a></p> <p>Jade Chen's 《時代的摺痕》- <a href='http://bit.ly/2VictmX'>http://bit.ly/2VictmX</a></p> <p> </p