2026-02-12
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But the Jimmy Lai of this week, after being sentenced to 20 years in prison,
might be less heartened by what Trump had to say a few days ago.
And he was an activist to put it mildly, but a positive activist.
But if you're President Xi, he wasn't a positive activist.
I spoke to President Xi when I was in South Korea.
Jimmy Lai is a pro-democracy activist and he's a long-standing opponent of Beijing's increasing control over the former British colony of Hong Kong,