Handpicked judges, retrospective laws, implied crimes and the abandoning of juries in case they might "pervert the course of justice" – the conviction of Jimmy Lai shows how far Hong Kong has fallen, says Kwai Lou.
Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.
Protests and the failed zero-Covid policy have damaged China’s President. But the Chinese people may now finally be ready to move into the post-Covid era, writes Hong Kong resident Kwai Lou in the Daily Sceptic.
China’s Zero Covid policy remains very much in place while others, notably New Zealand’s, have been suddenly and embarrassingly abandoned. But will that change after the CCP National Congress in October?
Two years on from the first lockdown, Xi Jinping has persuaded the people of China that he has protected them as though a father caring for children. But will Omicron and the Olympics prove his undoing?
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