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Jimmy Lai’s Imprisonment Is Blueprint for How Authoritarians Use ‘National Security’ to Crush Political Dissent

Jimmy Lai’s Imprisonment Is Blueprint for How Authoritarians Use ‘National Security’ to Crush Political Dissent
Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily speaks during an interview in response to the national security legislation in Hong Kong on May 29, 2020. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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When Jimmy Lai was a child working the streets of Canton (Guangzhou), China, in the 1950s, he received a bar of chocolate as a tip for carrying a man’s bags at a train station.

Jonathan Miltimore
Jonathan Miltimore
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Jon Miltimore is senior editor at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) and former managing editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and the Star Tribune.