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AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai (apnews.com)

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Democracy is a vague word that can mean different things. Both US and China call themselves democracies. Tell me what those justifications actually are and I can judge for myself instead of just believing whatever I'm told.

[–] cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

They didn't need justifications, at least not specific ones. There's a very distinct implication here that China vaguely found this man's pro-democracy speech and assembly dangerous to the establishment and that was enough