Spiritual “Slavery” in China: Will Hong Kong Be Next?—Cardinal Zen

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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December 5, 2019Updated: December 6, 2019

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As part of an older generation, how does 87-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen view the Hong Kong protests and the leadership of the younger Hong Kong-ers fueling them?

Why does Cardinal Zen describe the situation in Hong Kong as a “war”?

And how, in Cardinal Zen’s view, has the Vatican made very poor choices vis-a-vis communist China?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Today we sit down with Joseph Zen, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, who served as the sixth Bishop of Hong Kong. A strong voice for human rights and political and religious freedom, he’s been denoted as the most outspoken critic of China’s persecution of Catholics, and communist China’s relationship with the Vatican.

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