The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing - Softcover

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798987053720

Verlag: Columbia Global Reports, 2025

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Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another?

The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a state of civil war. Only Hong Kong has changed in just a few years from a place with virtually no political prisoners to one with many. Only Thailand is a monarchy with lèse-majesté laws. Yet, many young activists and exiles from these regions feel that their struggles are connected.

Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom met dozens of dissidents, including Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, known for his protests against compulsory Thai military service; Agnes Chow, co-founder of a political party now banned in Hong Kong; and Ye Myint Win (aka Nickey Diamond), who fled to Germany from Burma in the early 2020s, fearing reprisal from the junta for his human rights work. Activists like these three express solidarity with one another online and on the streets, and sometimes refer to themselves as belonging to the “Milk Tea Alliance,” a nod to their shared opposition to nationalistic Beijing loyalists and the fact that their cultures' iconic drinks contain dairy, unlike mainland China’s traditional tea.

How do these activists, each facing their unique situations, find common ground and sustain one another? Wasserstrom traveled globally to interview members of this loosely constituted alliance, meeting some in Asia and others in exile, finding them united by democratic values, shared concerns over autocrats, and the rising influence of a common adversary—the Chinese Communist Party.

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in law and literary journalism. He is the author of six previous books, including Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports). He is on the Advisory Committee of Index on Censorship, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations.

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• Verlag: Columbia Global Reports
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798987053720
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104
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