The Imprisonment of Jimmy Lai

from All Things with Kim Strassel · host The Wall Street Journal

Donald Trump will travel to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Trump has said that one issue he will bring up during the meeting is the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against the National Security Law. On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel speaks with Lai’s close friend and Wall Street Journal Opinion columnist William McGurn about what led to Lai’s arrest and why his cause has been taken up by journalists around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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