From The Post's Editorial Board: China is using the cover of coronavirus to escalate its repression in Hong Kong
, Mr. Lai bluntly declared that “the spread of the coronavirus has revealed a truth that poses a much greater risk to Mr. Xi: There is no cure for Chinese communism except the collapse of the party.” His point was that the suppression of information that helped the virus spread has only reinforced the corrosive distrust with which the regime is regarded by both the world and its own people.
Mr. Lai, who is in his early 70s, was released on bail but could face trial in the coming months. Hong Kong’s legal system, which was supposed to remain independent via the “one country, two systems” formula under which the former British colony was returned to Chinese sovereignty, no longer can be counted on to uphold the rule of law.
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