As China Cracks-down on Hong Kong’s Leading Freedom Fighters, We Must Push Back

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

While Americans are focused on China’s coronavirus and the financial pandemic now afflicting their pension plans, the Chinese Communist Party’s puppet government in Hong Kong is seizing the day. 

Three leaders of massive demonstrations last August have been arrested, a seemingly small addition to the 7,000 protestors Beijing’s proxies are believed to have previously taken into custody. But the prosecution of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Hong Kong’s freest newspaper, Apple Daily, and opposition politicians Lee Cheuk-yan and Yeung Sum, suggests that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping intends to institute a wider crack-down in their city.

The coronavirus is not only distracting us, it is discouraging Hong Kong’s freedom fighters from massing in the streets. It behooves the U.S. government, therefore, to redouble its efforts to protect them and their movement by impressing upon Xi that further oppression will entail real costs.  

This is Frank Gaffney.