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While Jimmy Lai Sits In Prison, Eileen Gu Takes The CCP’s Millions

As Americans, we should celebrate heroes like Jimmy Lai and demand accountability from public figures such as Eileen Gu.

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A Hong Kong court has sentenced Jimmy Lai, a courageous 78-year-old critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to an alarming 20 years in prison. Given Lai’s age and deteriorating health, he will almost certainly die in prison.

Lai has a remarkable life story. As a teenager, he escaped from mainland China to Hong Kong during the Great Chinese Famine (1958-1961), a tragedy that claimed the lives of an estimated 30 million people. Through sheer determination and entrepreneurial spirit, he transformed himself into a multimillionaire with a successful clothing brand.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement and the CCP’s brutal crackdown marked a significant turning point for Lai. He subsequently founded a media empire that included Next magazine and Apple Daily, becoming a vocal critic of the CCP and an advocate for democracy and free markets. Lai accompanied his words with action, frequently participating in pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. He once said: “It’s not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It’s the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.”

His political activism set him apart from other tycoons in Hong Kong, many of whom chose to either remain silent or echo the CCP rhetoric in exchange for business favors from Beijing. Lai’s outspoken nature made him a target for the CCP. As a result, he had to sell his stake in the clothing company he........

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