2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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| 0:06.6 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook |
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batson with Gordon Chang at Gordon |
| 0:33.8 | G. Chang and we're joined by our colleague Mark Simon, Jimmy Lai's longtime deputy |
| 0:38.5 | and a director at the now closed Apple Daily. Jimmy Lai is on trial for essentially the rest |
| 0:43.7 | of his life. He's been persecuted these last years by the authorities because they're the Chinese |
| 0:50.9 | Communist Party. But what is to be done? Significant to me is that Jimmy Lai |
| 0:55.6 | is both a Hong Kong citizen and a British citizen. And we're told by the news, Ft.com, this morning, |
| 1:03.6 | that Sir Kier Starrmer, the new Prime Minister of Britain, is in Rio and spoke to Xi about Jimmy |
| 1:10.1 | Lai. Also, there is a remark in the Reuters reporting that the President of the United States elect, |
| 1:18.3 | Mr. Trump, is ready to address this matter. |
| 1:22.3 | I mentioned that one of the charges against Jimmy Lye is that he met with Michael Spence, the vice president |
| 1:28.7 | of the first Trump administration. |
| 1:31.2 | So, Mark, that's a lot of firepower, the British Parliament and the American president. |
| 1:37.1 | Is that sufficient to end this torture? |
| 1:41.1 | Yes, yes, that is significant. |
| 1:43.7 | That's a very, look, this is the thing that Xi Jinping and the rest of him we have to look at. |
| 1:48.2 | Nobody is sitting here telling Xi Jinping what he has to do. |
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