MARK SIMON ON CHINESE POLITICAL PRISONER JIMMY LAI: I Want to See My Friend, Jimmy Lai. “To give the CCP their due, they know a threat when they see it. From 1997 to 2021 a variety of activists rolled through Hong Kong. But there was one constant, one thing that gave all these activists oxygen and public space. Jimmy Lai. . . . Jimmy Lai is in jail because he believes in freedom, because he believes in a free press, because he believes in religious freedom, because he believes in an individual’s economic freedoms, and most of all because Jimmy Lai believes no man or woman reigns above others.”