Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison
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For Lai, Hong Kong was everything that China was not - deeply capitalist, a land of opportunity and limitless wealth, and free. In the city, which was still a British colony when he arrived in 1959, he found success - and then a voice.
In the midst of celebrations marking 20 years since Britain returned Hong Kong to China, Beijing declared that the document which initiated the handover "is no longer relevant." Hong Kong's police officers intervene in an altercation between Pro-China ...