Haldanes Law Matters – Episode 22 With Guest Bernard Chan

Can you remember why a lot of people freaked out in Hong Kong in 2012?
Or in 2019?
What was behind it all?
Why did China react the way it did?
And what does the year 2047 actually mean? If anything.
In Part One of a groundbreaking interview for Haldanes Law Matters, Jonathan Midgley spoke with Bernard Chan, politician, businessman, and civic leader, on a range of important issues related to Hong Kong’s past, present, and future.
Now in Part Two, Bernard draws on his more than 25 years of experience working with the government and leading public institutions to discuss why these events unfolded the way they did and why the future of Hong Kong depends so much on the city staying ahead and evolving.
Art, museums, Coldplay, the Hong Kong narrative, all these and more come into focus in ways you won’t expect in the second part of this fascinating podcast which you can listen to here.
If you missed the first part, you can catch up on Spotify or here.