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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Trial of Jimmy Lai Begins in Hong Kong

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The world is watching as newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai faces charges of collusion with foreign forces, which carries a life sentence. Hong Kong and China are more on trial than Mr. Lai is. Plus, Houthi forces attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea to disrupt global trade routes, with all signs pointing to involvement from Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The trial of publisher Jimmy Lye begins on Monday in Hong Kong on national security charges.

0:47.0

Mr. Lye has spent more than a thousand days in prison and the trial puts Hong Kong and Chinese justice on trial as much as it does Mr.

0:57.4

Lyon will tell you what it means.

0:59.2

Plus the Huti militia in Yemen keep sending attack drones and ballistic missiles at commercial ships,

1:06.6

hitting at least two in the last few days, and all but shutting down commercial shipping

1:11.8

traffic through one of the most heavily traffic

1:14.1

sea lanes in the world. What is the Biden administration going to do about it?

1:19.6

Welcome, I'm Paul Geego with the Wall Street Journal editorial page here on Potomac.

1:24.6

Watch our daily podcast, and I'm here with my colleagues Bill McGurn and Kate Batchelder

1:29.8

O'Dell. Welcome. Let's start by talking about the trial of Jimmy lie, finally, on her way. And let's listen to Jimmy's son, Sebastian

1:39.3

lie, in recent days talking about the prospects of a fair trial.

1:46.0

There's three government appointed judges and there's no jury.

1:50.0

The security minister boasted of a 100% conviction rate.

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