Watching "The #Milk Tea Alliance: Precedents and Possibilities"

Spring break has started, but I have a lot of stuff to do. But first I want to watch Jeffrey Wasserstrom's talk on the the "#Milk Tea Alliance: Precedents and Possibilities" from Feb. 15. I like his historical take on transnational activism. This is the description of the talk:

As a distinctively twenty-first century phenomenon, #MilkTeaAlliance refers to struggles from Hong Kong, Thailand, and Burma to Taiwan against the increasing power of the Chinese Communist Party. The campaign is empowered by social media, but region-wide cross-border collaboration among activists and exiles is not without precedents. This talk will explore the similarities and differences between #MilkTeaAlliance and its historical predecessors, and reflects on the limits of social science analysis that fails to go beyond geographical borders. The staying power and the future influences will also be assessed.

Wasserstrom talks about Liang Ch'i-ch'ao (梁啟超), who has shown up in some of my recent reading. He compares Liang to Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who has, like Liang, translated some works about democracy from the West (and, in Netiwit's case, from Hong Kong and China).