The recent spate of violence against media companies in Hong Kong is being understood as a new round of raw intimidation by the Chinese regime, trying to suppress freedom of speech in the region.
Most recently it was the firebombing of the offices of Next Media, which runs the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, and the home of its former proprietor, the outspoken Jimmy Lai, on Jan. 11, that triggered the wave of concern.
“These are obvious acts by gangsters,” said Ching Cheong, a well-known senior political reporter and commentator with the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, in an interview with Epoch Times.
