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Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017)

TV-14 | | Documentary | 20 January 2017 (USA)
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When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the ... See full summary »

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When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China's most notorious dissidents.

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Too many biases
5 October 2019 | by sunshine-21075 – See all my reviews

After I enough in China's brain washing news inside China, I tried to find a different view of the whole HK events and found this on Netflix. To be honest this can't be called a documentary, it only provides one side's opinion, too many biases through the film, it's no differences from China's brain washing news. In this time, people spreads and receives news that only flavors themselves, nobody cares about neutrality.
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