Avoiding Lost Decades: Teaser #1
BBC World Service - East Asian Rely Station (Hong Kong)
…repeat we are going off the air in twenty-two minutes on my mark…*mark. This is managing director Nigel Lane. The BBC regrets the inconvenience to our listening audience but the Chinese have told us they will be jamming our signal in just a short while.
Our top news story takes place here, in Hong Kong. Chinese troops have entered the city and with the withdrawal of the Joint Commonwealth-Japanese Fleet north to Taiwan Hong Kong is not prepared to put up resistance.
The Royal Hong Kong Police Force recommends that all citizens stay in their homes as much as possible until the present state of emergency is resolved.
It is 17 May, 2018 and the time is 1055 GMT, 1855 local time. The East Asian Rely Station is going off the air in twenty minutes on my mark…*mark. Repeat, it is…
BBC World Service - Far Eastern Rely Station (Singapore)
The five short pips followed by the long pip indicate that it is 1100 GMT . . . . . -
This is London. This is the BBC. Because of emergency conditions the Eastern Asia region is not, repeat is not, part of the BBC half hourly news update world programming.
This is a joint broadcast from the East Asian Rely Station in Hong Kong and the Far Eastern Rely Station in Singapore. Hong Kong is going off the air in fifteen minutes. All those currently tuned to Hong Kong will be losing signal, as well as FM & Satellite listeners in the Greater Hong Kong region. Shortwave listeners in Hong Kong may or may not be able to pick up Singapore—the BBC is unable to guarantee you service against Chinese jamming.
Pacific listeners may achieve better reception on Radio New Zealand International or Radio Australia.
We now go live to Jonathan Chapman, the BBC correspondent on board the Queen Victoria somewhere south-west of Taiwan.
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We seem to have lost contact with the Joint Fleet.
This is the BBC. Our top news story tonight…