Hong Kong Hero

The fate of Lai Chee-ying, "Jimmy" Lai, the Hong Kong business mogul who founded the retailer Giordano, the media company Next Digital, and the newspaper Apple Daily, was sealed 30 years ago. It just took another two decades for the Chinese Communist Party to imprison him. Outraged by the CCP’s massacre of protesters at Tiananmen Square, he insulted the brutal Chinese premier Li Peng in a regular column he wrote in his own Next magazine in 1994. As the author and Hong Kong democracy activist Mark Clifford tells it in his fascinating new biography of Lai, The Troublemaker, that column in which he criticized the barbarism, corruption, and decay of the Chinese Communist Party marked the beginning of Lai’s open war with Beijing.

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The scandal illustrates how Western democracies are not prepared for China’s intelligence gathering and political interference operations.

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