Why China wants this billionaire behind bars

Why China wants this billionaire behind bars | About That

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After waiting more than three years in a jail cell, Jimmy Lai stood trial for treason in a Hong Kong courtroom this week. If found guilty, the 76-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison. But who is this media tycoon and pro-democracy activist? And why does the Chinese government want him behind bars?
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@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Free Assange

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

@@annan7728 Yawn. HK has solid evidence against JL

@garymccallum667 8 ай бұрын

@@robocop581Free JA indeed but you actually believe pro CCP HK authorities have evidence of anything? You think that clever guy would create an entire media empire and still shoot from the lip? It's propaganda my friend, exactly the same scenario as JA. Exonerate Ed Snowdon.

@walhdamaskus2408 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely and CBC news is not assange friend or any free medias friend.

@hautaukhang1808 8 ай бұрын

During the 150 years of British rule of Hong Kong there was no voting rights for the Hong Kong people. Hong Kong people cannot choose their own governor. Hong Kong governor was always chosen from UK. Hong Kong never have democracy during the 150 yeas of British rule.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Exactly

@lodingwai 8 ай бұрын

And China never had democracy in their 5000 years of history because it is a happily enslaved people lol so proud they can't stand Hong Kong having even bits of it

@theyanet 8 ай бұрын

Gosh, that was more than 25 years ago. The society changes and people change over time. Space for democracy progressed over time back in the colonial time, the UK gov had been increasing numbers of legislators to be elected, they set up a different culture, gives people freedom of speech, press freedom and freedom of association, and anti-corruption education became deeply rooted in HK, unlike China. Corruption culture in China is still very common, media is under all sorts of control. The basic law promised Hong Kong people to be able to elect their governors, but Beijing didn't keep their promises and is taking those freedom away. Your statement is therefore saying, as French people were ruled by Kings and Queen since the 5th century, while on earth they did a French revolution in 1789. Weren't they happy enough living under monarchism previously in all those years?

@ric6074 8 ай бұрын

Well said.

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

Who elect HK governer ?NOT Hong Kongers but British legislation. Shame on you,your comments is unfounded.

@Alwayswilling 8 ай бұрын

CBC apparently needs another anti-China issue, thus here it is standing up for a Chinese citizen, with no connections to Canada who refuses to abide by Chinese law, much like Palestinians refuse to accept Israeli rules. One minor difference is that I'm allowed to comment on this Hong Kong issue, very much unlike how CBC will never allow it's audience to discuss or debate Israel's efforts to erase the entire Palestinian nation.

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

it's democracy or news media being controlled ?

@ikkong8436 8 ай бұрын

You nailed CBC right on the head! Bravo....

@helenatan7173 8 ай бұрын

Canada is not the country l want to immigrate to anymore 😮

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

So do people all over the world through Internets uncovered the truth.

@megumilam7315 8 ай бұрын

中國人嘅思維邏輯真係異於常人

@tanbw922 8 ай бұрын

He is a British citizen. Why is he interfering with Chinese and Hong Kong politics? He should have gone back to the UK and champion improvements to governance in the UK instead.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

How are the Freedom Truckers doing?

@Bobbyleejoe2556 6 ай бұрын

All the truckers are in the same situation as the homeless people. All their bank accounts are frozen. 😂

@Donquiontee125 8 ай бұрын

If he is not guilty of treason, so are others like him in other countries.

@Chilligaljas 8 ай бұрын

Only if others are in similar situations as Jimmy.

@DemocracyIsBaal 8 ай бұрын

@@Chilligaljas Jillian Assange

@Chilligaljas 8 ай бұрын

Did Jimmy Lai hack the government to release information? He was running a newspaper only

@henryng9406 8 ай бұрын

Donquiontee, What you've written is extremely difficult to understand. Please rephrase. Thanks

@sleo3720 8 ай бұрын

Being a close accomplice of pompeo speaks volumes of his intent and actions

@wil_wilqueen3552 7 ай бұрын

Same case what US government did to Eric Snowdon , Assange .

@jesussonofgod6284 8 ай бұрын

ASK JULIAN ASSANGE WHAT IS DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM AND TRUTH? JULIAN ASSANGE: IT'S ALL JUST NONSENSE..!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

@youarebeingtrolled6954 8 ай бұрын

The rupert murdoch of HK😂

@gordonjean6183 6 ай бұрын

Robbed his employees of their pensions 😊

@sayyestofairness4266 2 ай бұрын

Rebuke certainly came quickly for him, too! It's not even five years since he forced the pro-democracy protesters to stupidly wave the US flag (hurting their cause in the process) and boasted about supporting Trump on camera. Now look what happened to his city. As if the violence, vandalism, and right wing grift weren't already discrediting enough, here are some more nails in their coffin. And it all completely backfired.

@jasonjean2901 8 ай бұрын

This was the most biased take on an issue I've seen so far on this program. No mention of how: 1) Jimmy Lai's #2 at Apple Daily is a former U.S. Navy intelligence official? 2) That the Hong Kong Basic Law always required the Hong Kong government to enact its own National Security Legislation, and China waited 23 years for Hong Kong to fulfill its own constitutional obligations before enacting it at a time when the U.S. government was funding, organizing, and leading rioters in the city? 3) That Hong Kong was the only territory in the world without National Security legislation before it was imposed by China? 4) How the Hong Kong National Security Law is actually mild compared with, for example, U.S. National Security legislation, which, among other things, allows the U.S. government to assassinate its own citizens?

@ahkoy973 8 ай бұрын

Totally agree 👍

@vancat6232 8 ай бұрын

Very well said, Jason. It seems so easy to work as a reporter nowadays, you can so easily distort the facts just like this dude does.

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

Second… it seems your comments on other videos only focus and defend the Chinese government. 🧐 50cents army? btw… how much do you know about the national security law when you don’t even live there? Try live there first then you can start talking.

@herberttan4169 8 ай бұрын

Western news 😂😂😂

@chrislee5685 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellai7712 You only kept saying 50c but can't provide any valid dialogue. 😂 Try to be contribute on your arguments if wanna be hero.

@johnleong4807 8 ай бұрын

As a British subject Lai has knowingly made a wrong move by interfering with HK /China internal affair. No western countries would allow Lai to do the same. For150 years British had forced China to sign HK into a free port to smuggle looted valuable treasures. Hong kongers were strictly controlled by the British government without any voting rights and restricted freedom. Understand your position to make your money inorder to live a steady and happy life is the most appropriate goal.

@AJ-iu6nw 8 ай бұрын

at least under the British, Hong Kong was civilized and didn't eat dogs. Like they do in the other parts of China.

@Orange6711 8 ай бұрын

Yet under the British rule, Hong Kong thrived! Hong Kong became the financial center of Asia! What was China doing in the meantime? Oh yes, the Chinese were busy burning ancient artifacts , books, and akilling teachers, intellectuals. Hong Kong was lucky to be under the British rule instead of Mao.

@gloriagloria5377 8 ай бұрын

@AJ-iu6nw I don't think you got it quite right, at least about eating dogs. Dog meat is a gourmet dish. Even up till today. Hong Konger may not eat in Hong Kong. They will go to Guangzhou to get it. Slaughtering dogs could be done in their home backyards. You have not travel deep in Hong Kong yet. Eating dogs is not illegal in Hong Kong or in the mainland China.

@fortpark-wd9sx 8 ай бұрын

@@AJ-iu6nw You are almost certainly wrong. Dog eating was already known in the wider Guangdong region (including Guangxi and HK) before 1842. UK-HK was not known to take steps to prevent HKers from eating dogs during colonial rule. After handover, there was no known record of HK Legco arguing whether dog eating was a human right. This meant dog-eating, unless proven otherwise, was tolerated by the British from 1842 to 1997.

@davidrichards1741 8 ай бұрын

Canada and US genocided 62M aboriginals. Today they genocide 2-million palestinian kids.

@gibsonsg6201 8 ай бұрын

Why wasn’t Samuel up in arms when Hk was under the colonial rule of the Uk? After all, Hk citizens were essentially second class citizens in their own land and had no suffrage or voting rights. The British had a freehand and did whatever they chose to do and not a pip was heard from Samuel. To think a government or a country has to bend to anarchism and seditious ideas to only enact laws that would please the lawless ruffians. Why should China heed the demands of the US or the West for that matter with their internal matters. I suggest Samuel to start a movement in the US to address the genocide that was against the Native Indians and to abolish the US Constitution altogether and see how far that will get him? I shudder the thought.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Load of crap. Most of HK's success was via cheap production of goods in China. Where do you think Giordano clothes and merchandise were produced.

@Mr.Patrick_Hung 8 ай бұрын

You are correct. This report s very biased.

@cheeaunmin254 8 ай бұрын

LOL....this is not journalism but framing narrative with interviews with people favorable to him. Why no interviews with people who knew jimmy lies 😂😂😂

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

That's how our journalism works?

@user-iq8pe2is6n 8 ай бұрын

Hong Kong did not have any kind of election before 1997, why didn't he protest for his right to vote then? Which country in this world doesn't have a National Security Law? A British billionaire does not need to obey China's law?

@User-og2cm 8 ай бұрын

Simply he deserves to be behind bars for rest of his life...

@weronpc 8 ай бұрын

Hong Kong is not the same anymore. I am scared to visit Hong Kong.

@ikkong8436 8 ай бұрын

On the contrary i have never visited Hong Kong but now that 'negative' pictures have been painted about Hong Kong, i would like to visit it to see the truths for myself rather than just relying on the words of others! I cannot allow myself to be an ignorant fool.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Goku the Super Saiyan is afraid?

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

Hong Kong is not the same anymore because I feel safe now that the National Security Law is in force. I was scared to visit Hong Kong in 2019 when violent protestors ruled the streets.

@AhmetTekin101 8 ай бұрын

Because of the Chinese rrgime!

@ric6074 8 ай бұрын

Nobody invite you to go.

@taliswong 8 ай бұрын

He has done so much damage to the Hong Kong society over all these years, it goes without saying he should be put to trial.

@CNHabs 8 ай бұрын

If the tables were turned, any Canadian media mogul using his tabloid and status to solicit foreign interference to help Quebec separatism would end up the same way. Spain was known for armed cracked down of peaceful protests by the Catalans and the examples can go on and on.

@jwychau 8 ай бұрын

sure, but that 'media mogul' would go through our judicial process and hire himself the best lawyers and Jimmy Lai already served 3 years of SOLITARY confinement before his trial.. no sure you would skip work and sit in the dark in your closet for 2 hours for my freedom... so you know... details

@fortpark-wd9sx 8 ай бұрын

@@jwychau No big fan of CCP but the main point here was that if it was Canadian Lai v Canadian gov, Lai would still face the same problem. Of course, the Canadian gov would probably be nicer to Canadian Lai in this scenario. The wider pro-Lai argument was not the judicial process but that going against the gov and being significantly pro-foreign was the right thing. In other words, claiming the PRC and HK-SAR were illegitimate and had no right of jurisdiction. Kind of similar to saying George Blake was right to give UK state secrets to the Soviets because the UK allegedly had no right to exist.

@vincenttay2812 8 ай бұрын

This is actually treason collaborating with a foreign element

@jwychau 8 ай бұрын

@@fortpark-wd9sx under what Canadian law r u referring to that puts a person in solitary confinement for 3 years before their trail? There was a lot of word salad there but I’m not sure which one sites that.

@NeostormXLMAX 5 ай бұрын

@@jwychau bullshit he is under house arrest like the huawei ceo's daughter and doesn't even need security on him 24/7

@mikec1462 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lai was my idol , I bought his first newspaper (Apple Daily) & Next magazine until he was the head of the looter or thug. Keep in mind "Freedom of Speech not = Freedom of Vandalism. I nearly went bankrupt because of the 2019 conflict and laid-off 10 staffs due to the 2019 conflict led by jimmy Lai. My business is not completed recover yet but i am living in a more peaceful world than in 2019. Do not take my word for it ..Visit Hong Kong today and see it for yourself -Period . Jimmy Lai is not pro-democracy activist HE is the head of the looters.

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

And money laundery too.

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lie is his real name.😂

@chillian1985 8 ай бұрын

My message to the west....Free Assange!!

@songnianzhang366 8 ай бұрын

why usa wants julian assange behind the bar?

@lominiski 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lai went too far. This is the same as HuangJinRong before the CCP; he made the same mistake. Treason is serious in the US too, as is in Canada. Unfortunately, he went too far. When you start something that attempts to ovethrow a government, that government will push back....doesn't all governments do that......I kind of remember the truckers in Ottawa.

@jwychau 8 ай бұрын

I forgot the part where the Canadian government put all the truckers in solitary confinement for 3 years before their trial

@NeostormXLMAX 5 ай бұрын

@@jwychau lmao he was under house arrest, he was more free than the huawei ceo's daughter with security following her 24/7

@johnchang1226 8 ай бұрын

He said this (to America) openly: we work for your interests in hong kong. If this is not considered treason, what is this then?

@user-sj3qz9yo3f 8 ай бұрын

From when Lai became an immaculate Mother Teresa in Hongkong? Does the video producer even know the media under Lai is like the Sun in UK and got so many bad rep in the past?

@allenwong2219 8 ай бұрын

WTF just interviewing pro democracy activists about Jimmy Lai. This report is so biased.

@johnlee-yo8jc 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the story. Now, I know he is guilty. Jimmy Lai hates Chinese so much, he even bad mouth Bruce Lee.

@agrippamarcus6533 8 ай бұрын

If a Chinese citizen has been organizing the Jan. 6 event in the US, discussing extensively and flying to Beijing to talk to CCP on how to organizing and carrying out the Jan. 6 event and topple the US Gov, would that person still be walking free in the US?

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

First, Jan 6th wasn’t organized by a Chinese person, so your example is flawed. And the answer is yes… Trump is still walking free and trying to get re-elected.

@Chilligaljas 8 ай бұрын

Is that what Jimmy Lai had done?

@agrippamarcus6533 8 ай бұрын

@@Chilligaljas Jimmy Lai actually had done much more than the Jan. 6 folks. Jan. 6 was a bunch people taking over one site for a day with moderate violence, in HK it was half of the city for a few months and a lot more violence, Molotov cocktails, metal bars, etc. If he had tried to do the same thing in the US, he would have been shot by LAPD or Texas citizens in no time.

@Chilligaljas 8 ай бұрын

@@agrippamarcus6533 where is the evidence? He was only running a newspaper in Hong Kong. Get your facts straight first.

@Chilligaljas 8 ай бұрын

@@agrippamarcus6533 If the same had happened in the US, all the media editors would have been arrested and held in prison for criticising the US government.

@lc8850 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy has close tie to USA and accepts their funding to topple HK government. Has CBC talked about this fact?

@helenatan7173 8 ай бұрын

Lie shd rot in jail

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

cbc always discredit China over the years with bad narrative.

@MarkYeung1 8 ай бұрын

There's no evidence he accepted US money

@fortpark-wd9sx 8 ай бұрын

Or is it because Lai has close ties to USA and therefore CBC does not consider a controversial issue?😊😊

@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m 8 ай бұрын

@@helenatan7173 even bank receipt, the evidence they took money from US (literally brided) was shown in news and newspaper

@supagirusupagiru9932 8 ай бұрын

The same thing like what the US done to Julian Assange

@user-jl8wg2eh3f 8 ай бұрын

Totally different. They have nothing in common.

@davidnimmo6006 8 ай бұрын

@@user-jl8wg2eh3f Assange promoted peace. Lai financed murder

@gwent5914 8 ай бұрын

You are insulting Julian Assange. Julian did for democracy and freedom of speech. Lai is liar and corrupted and demonized China for money.

@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lai took money from US congress through NGO and former US CIA to plan and start riot for years what if someone take money from russia or china and start riot in ur country?

@memiekwok9272 8 ай бұрын

Wrong!!

@sofiwuu3001 8 ай бұрын

Nobody is above the law!

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

Especially the abusive of national security law

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lie thought he is above the law because he believed he has the CIA and God solidly behind him. At least he was made to believe so.😂😂😂

@raccoonpanda1388 8 ай бұрын

Any Chinese/HK officials are above their law, China/HK is a rule of man country, law is a tool used by the govn

@sofiwuu3001 8 ай бұрын

@@raccoonpanda1388 well, philosophiquement yes...however, how do you think your equality to prince George ? Or your sister to princess Charlotte ? Honestly, you are not second class in the sociaty, but the second to the people you are dealing with in the sociaty, i didn't like Londres cause the lowerclass is mean, you atr second to those! Above all, communiste china is fairely equal, constitutionally and practically. It's a point of view, not an argument!

@KinWong-uw5xz 8 ай бұрын

He should be lockup for good.

@rcbrascan 8 ай бұрын

This video did not mention the one thing that would change people's view of Jimmy Lai and that is that he was working for the CIA for the past 20 years. Jimmy admitted to it since the Hong Kong government produced the evidence in his earlier trials and it is collaborated by his associates.

@eeyore345 8 ай бұрын

Please quote your source, 50c

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

Since1989 pictures with U.S diplomats several occasions with documents involved Mark Simon(escaped)

@e-wordChina 8 ай бұрын

Mark Simon was Jimmy’s CIA handler@@cheehincheong6719

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

Where is your source? WeChat? lol 😂

@lmyunxlee2005 8 ай бұрын

He is..

@ikkong8436 8 ай бұрын

Mee too. Free Assange, not this questionable character.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Canada also has a Security Law LOL

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

detained Huawei CFO without any evidence for 3 years ?

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

@@cheehincheong6719 they detain the CfO at the request by the Us government due to the extradition agreement. You need to read the story first before making any comments

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

@@cheehincheong6719 also, they found 7 passports with different identities from her bag. That already raise a red flag.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellai7712So what?

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

@7712 Who didn't know the story Huawei case ? IQ ?

@jujubae_ 8 ай бұрын

Tell the real story, about how Jimmy Lai was paid by and working for the CIA.

@johnchang1226 8 ай бұрын

He should (be jailed). All the 2019 video clips are still on KZfaq. One can decide whether they amount to rioting.

@Hi-eu5mv 8 ай бұрын

He deserves behind bar, if he beak his country's law, doesn't mater he is billionaire or if he is a US's president Trump's or Biden's break US's law!

@gibsonsg6201 8 ай бұрын

He deserves to be behind bars, for sure! To be brutally honest, jimmy Lai is just another traitor who sorted to betray his own country using his wealth and platform to promote and provoke the stupids to raise hell in what used to be a world class city which is part of China. Let’s face it, if Hk was still part of the Uk or a protectorate of the US, none of this riot would have happened. Not that their rules were good, on the contrary, the rioters p/traitors would have been crushed and I can assure you that the West would never have allowed such anarchy and lawlessness to continue for more than a few days before they called in the National Guards or the military. Carrie Lam was weak but China took her in to bait out all the major traitors. And, it worked!

@joshg7949 8 ай бұрын

Allow comments on all of your videos. A very large amount of your funding is from tax payer dollars given from the government.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

The Freedom Truckers wanna say Merry Xmas CBC

@CristoperCris-ix2rp 8 ай бұрын

Free julian asange

@arthurrafferty4102 8 ай бұрын

It's funny that when under suppressive British rule he was as quiet as a mouse. In fact it was on the run up to the withdrawal of Britain that he was positioned to be a thorn in China's side. It has been learned at his trial that he financed western established opposition groups. Violent groups, many of whom fled to the west after the enforcement of legal proceedings. Today the courts have given permission for his phone and computers, seized by the authorities over a year ago, to be searched for evidence. On top of this many of his accomplices have come forward to give evidence against him. A western backed stooge who has been unmasked and now faces justice and Washington is screaming blue murder over it.

@rozyue1177 8 ай бұрын

As usual the West specialises In Double Standards

@bptan4545 8 ай бұрын

There are more billionaire in China than all of South East Asia combined. No chance in China is nonsense 😂😂😂. Are you capable or not? 😊😊

@X-H-Wu 8 ай бұрын

America has locals as proxies all over other countries. When the time comes, these local proxies will have to carry out the order and create troubles in the country.

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

example Ukraine ?

@chocolatesoldiertv7284 8 ай бұрын

Anywhere on this planet earth this guy can end up in jail !!! How can you engage with foreign governments to bring down your own country?

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lie, the British citizen, is going to rot in jail for creating trouble in Hong Kong 😂😂😂

@GloryToTaiwan 8 ай бұрын

Whether you are a millionaire or an ordinary civilian, if you undermine national security, you will naturally go to jail. This applies not only to China, but also to other countries around the world.

@foondavid 8 ай бұрын

Jimmy Lai is best put away.

@lawrencelim100 8 ай бұрын

Of course, he is a traitor

@nelsonsim 8 ай бұрын

He will be lockup for a long while. All his aides have pleaded guilty and he is nailed.

@Bobbyleejoe2556 7 ай бұрын

Free Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. 😢

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

Does this editor interferes the Hong Kong law for Jimmy Lai or discredits China ?

@AYMan-jz9xd 8 ай бұрын

Fact check pls …. One sided reporting . Period .

@unifieddynasty 8 ай бұрын

Imagine trying to make ordinary Canadians feel sympathy for a Chinese billionaire insurrectionist. 😂😂😂

@lmyunxlee2005 8 ай бұрын

Traitor, no more🎉

@eeyore345 8 ай бұрын

Freedom for Hong Kong!

@immigrationpmo7004 8 ай бұрын

We Canadians don't care bout your freedom. leave us out of this!

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

Tell our govt mind our own business.

@zeissiez 8 ай бұрын

Yes. Freedom for Hong Kong from being victimised by the US as a pawn to weaken China. With the National Security Law in place, now ordinary Hong Kongers are free to go to work or go to schools without being hit by rioters. 😊

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

Hong Kong is enjoying freedom since 1997 when it was returned to China after being occupied by Britain for 150 years as a colony. British colonies all over the world do not enjoy freedom, democracy, human rights or voting rights.

@ValentinoX 8 ай бұрын

Free Assange first then talk

@AKKC2012 8 ай бұрын

Why? Obviously any country will deal with traitors in similar ways!

@vincenttay2812 8 ай бұрын

Treason

@horridohobbies 8 ай бұрын

Exactly. I ask CBC News, have Western democracies never tried and convicted people for treason or violating national security laws? Why is China not entitled to uphold its laws? And more importantly, why does CBC News assume Jimmy Lai's innocence? Isn't that for the court to decide, just like In the West?

@johnsmith7345 8 ай бұрын

You can see from the comments here how far they will go to silence him.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

So we can't speak the truth? Only your version of truth applies?

@johnsmith7345 8 ай бұрын

@@robocop581 who's truth do you speak the CCP's ?

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

@@johnsmith7345 Speaking truth from HK Dufus. You don't even live in HK yet you think you know more about it. And BTW, I'm Canadian, there's 300,000 of us that live in HK

@johnsmith7345 8 ай бұрын

@@robocop581 what are you afraid of ?

@memiekwok9272 8 ай бұрын

The comments you don't like all happen to be the truth

@easternrazor3749 8 ай бұрын

He is a traitor. How else do you classify a person who works with, obtains financing for foreign govt, slanders their own nation and incites hatred and secession.

@daniellai7712 7 ай бұрын

That’s not the definition of treason in HK. In order to classify as treason, he needs to instigate a foreigner to invade the city. Or public enemy to start a war. To start this, HK government needs to label US as a public enemy back in 2019. Assisting a riot or protest is not considered as treason.

@chilam2512 8 ай бұрын

Want to promote Israel too?, enough of the western bull crap.

@fightignorance3598 8 ай бұрын

Why did Jimmy have to fight for democracy and freedom in HK if the British empire had granted these to Hong Kong people in its hundred years of rule over Hong Kong? Why didn’t Jimmy protest then ?

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

because he was a traitor since 1989 with US Diplomats and documented discredit China then.

@user-vp6vf8wm2s 8 ай бұрын

Simple, he didn't get paid for doing that for the British

@gordonjean6183 6 ай бұрын

Bennidct Arnold wasn’t a traitor he’s only preserving the British right to rule America

@ruifeng1064 8 ай бұрын

His actions were seditious and ample documentary evidences to prove it...rot in jail traitor...

@pandemicentitlements5198 8 ай бұрын

Now that's news! Excellent coverage - didn't know the trial began today. No matter what happens, I'll never forget Jimmy Lai's tears when speaking to Adrienne Arsenault and saying "what else can I do" but give my life and liberty for the 'sincerity of universal human suffrage.'

@mapletibits6372 8 ай бұрын

Oh please, I am one for humanity and universal values, but realistically is that truly how the world works under the table?

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

I believe Hong Kong law is no different than others.

@sammydavis8722 8 ай бұрын

crocodile tears

@jasonjean2901 8 ай бұрын

I'd like to see him cover the Canadian Trucker Protests in the same way. Only interview the pro-protester side and demonize the Canadian government. That's all he did here.

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

@@cheehincheong6719then you go back to there? Lol😂

@chrismayberry8798 8 ай бұрын

Great story.. hope this gets the attention it deserves

@isabellawun 8 ай бұрын

Stand with Jimmy Lai.

@HKerInTheNorth 8 ай бұрын

Love the last note. 100% conviction rate. Perfect.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Load of crap. Most of the protesters that got charged for rioting went Scott free or community service.

@walhdamaskus2408 8 ай бұрын

Perfect for Jimi.

@horridohobbies 8 ай бұрын

Hong Kong's national security law is only a few years old. There haven't been that many cases, so a perfect conviction rate is hardly unexpected. Moreover, the Chinese don't hold trials willy-nilly. If there is a trial, it is highly likely that they have sufficient evidence to convict. Why would you expect the person to get off free???

@jasonjean2901 7 ай бұрын

@@horridohobbies Excellent points.

@yueli93 8 ай бұрын

This is simple. Is he a HK/China national? No. Is he a British national? Yes. Is he interfering with Chinese politics through donations and campaigning? Yes. Is this foreign interference in Chinese domestic politics? Yes (as much as it would be for a Chinese Billionaire to make party contributions to a Canadian party, and participate/have a significant role in the convoy protests). Furthermore, if the US really wanted to prevent another Jan 6th, they'd be doing the same thing to Rupert Murdoch and Co.

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

Do your homework first before being misinformed by WeChat. 😊

@yueli93 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellai7712 did you have any actual rebuttals to my comment 😇 or are you just parroting insults for fun

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

@@yueli93 and do you have any source to back up your comments? Or you pull all these from your behind?

@yueli93 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellai7712 yeah, all of these points are pulled from the video. Did you watch the video all the way through? Did you use your critical thinking skills for yourself?

@dn9507 8 ай бұрын

He recorded himself of asking the CIA to overtaking Hong Kong government.

@alfredfan2154 7 ай бұрын

Video producer has lower than average average reasoning power 🙃

@dn9507 8 ай бұрын

BTW, Beverley McLachlin, Canada's former top judge is on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal. Canada sure don't have any foreign judges siting on our High Ourt.

@williamdurnan2190 8 ай бұрын

and?

@hongkongsmartboy 8 ай бұрын

so What?

@johnchang1226 8 ай бұрын

So the trial must be a fair one

@jww000 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this program.

@louiss1625 8 ай бұрын

I really hate how the host of this series over-emphasizes his "unplanned" act, and pretends to be "thinking"/deciding what to say, when we all know it's a script. it's very disingenuous.

@waftbut 8 ай бұрын

He ruined lots of lives with lies!

@csm1986 8 ай бұрын

To claim he would not have made it in mainland China is absurd. If you're smart, work hard, and lucky, you can make it anywhere. There are over 6 million Chinese millionaires and billionaires in mainland China, almost close to the entire population of HK!

@sofiwuu3001 8 ай бұрын

Im just wondering what hwas doing during 97? Why not say this during Brits gouverneur Peng who tried to push Hongkong independence? When democracy proven declining, he ran for countercurrent, i mean, is he OK ? Dont talk about tianAnMen 6.4., i was in Shanghai and i absolument call us Lucky not to leave the power in the students leaders hand! That réalisation, was after reading books publishedin Hongkong and baned in china. CaiLin, i watched her interview, onnly sweet talk to the média, disgusting!

@naivoj122 8 ай бұрын

Why? Cause he has caused alot of suffering and damages.

@iceman18211 8 ай бұрын

Not even close to the CCP.

@naivoj122 8 ай бұрын

@@iceman18211 uh oh. Another lost cause here. Get out from under the rock please, you might learn a thing or two.

@iceman18211 8 ай бұрын

@@naivoj122 so this man did worse things than Tiananmen square and the great leap backward which killed 15-55 million people?

@timothybayliss6680 8 ай бұрын

Did he refuse to get a vaccine?

@calvinchen3818 8 ай бұрын

If you believe HongKong’s legislation is better than Canada then don’t worry too much about Jimmy, if you don’t believe please refer to Mengwanzhou matter in Canada.

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

Meng Wanzhou wasn’t indicted by the Canadian government. She was detained by them at the request of US government due to their extradition agreement. She was released because the US government dropped the charges. So how does this relate to this video?

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

BTW… she was under house arrest, unlike Jimmy Lai. House arrest is different than being put into a jail. She was able to go shopping and lived in her mansion. And yes Canada is so much better than HK, otherwise, you can always move back to 🇨🇳. It is kinda ironic to have someone who trash our democratic system while enjoying all the freedoms here. “You judge people based on their actions, and not their words”

@calvinchen3818 8 ай бұрын

@@daniellai7712 No one will be charged only with word offences in Hong Kong, while the matter of Mrs Meng is the evidence that Canada doesn’t have independent jurisdiction.

@bongdedywiyadi6959 8 ай бұрын

Yang pasport ganda dan bersuara macam2 se harusnya diusir dr hongkong

@Gronmin 8 ай бұрын

Really interesting story I hadn't heard about, and great coverage

@Gronmin 8 ай бұрын

@@annan7728 .... yes... why... that has nothing to do with this...

@Gronmin 8 ай бұрын

@@annan7728 First people in China are arrested over basic complaints of the state not over rioting inside the building the government votes in while a vote is taking place. Second, it would be better than the show trials and disappearing people to be "re-educated" like they are now.

@amunra5330 8 ай бұрын

No other country would allow a city to do this...he committed treason.

@johnwong8336 8 ай бұрын

ANDREW ARE YOU ONE SIDED??

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

He is one of the pack.

@Mr.Patrick_Hung 8 ай бұрын

very biased report

@user-mh9tl7ew5e 8 ай бұрын

Andrew is definitely one-sided and blind. He can't see the fears of HK people living under the Chinese law, National Security Law, There is no freedom of speech, no press freedom, no human right. Who wants to live in fears or to be locked in jail if they say something that can be interpreted as seditious by the definition of Chinese law.

@bruce2745 8 ай бұрын

He is always biased on China reports

@liongjiahwong5478 7 ай бұрын

He is not a billionaire.

@louislau5412 8 ай бұрын

Promote western democracy make him wealth and gain him status. that is many people's dream job. He is sorry now not because he get caugh, instead he is resend that his big brother drop him like a piece dirt on their hand.

@canadiantesladventure 8 ай бұрын

Snowden died for nothing

@wanalan9958 8 ай бұрын

He is guilty

@masahirogo3330 8 ай бұрын

Just like your mother

@menzoencho5659 8 ай бұрын

he is trader should be in jail for life

@peterlee8925 8 ай бұрын

ANOTHER SIDE OF THE STORY!! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oah8gLqlprC7oYk.html

@user-rt6ip4kb1i 8 ай бұрын

If you want to talk about his charges, then describe his charges. He has all the incentives to betray his country, you just showed it in your program.

@wankee888 8 ай бұрын

The rioters are not the elites of HK

@khederahmadi6830 8 ай бұрын

I hope the government lock him in never let him out.

@immigrationpmo7004 8 ай бұрын

We don't care about Jimmy Lai. Leave Canada out of this. we're involved in too much international disputes. not our business !

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

It is a news… if you don’t care, then why are you watching it? It is not like the Canadian government gets involved into this

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

And based on your past comments, you sound like little pink or CCP sympathizers

@daniellai7712 8 ай бұрын

And stop saying “we” because you don’t represent everyone here.

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

@7122 Tell our govt.mind our own business.No news No comments ?

@Mr.Patrick_Hung 8 ай бұрын

Just my view from here in China, but I wish the Canadian government (and its government owned media) would not voice support for the pro-Lai rioters who burned the shops of minorities and beat people up on teh street. If your Democracy means I only have the right to your opinion, then you should go away.

@Anonymous_Whisper 8 ай бұрын

Free him Hong Kong should be freed aswell.

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

Free yourself from your Mom's Basement

@Anonymous_Whisper 8 ай бұрын

@@robocop581 enjoy your freedoms of expression

@robocop581 8 ай бұрын

@@Anonymous_Whisper Load of crap. Freedom Truckers anyone?

@Anonymous_Whisper 8 ай бұрын

@@robocop581 I like it . 2.0.

@memiekwok9272 8 ай бұрын

Bullshit

@draman7225 8 ай бұрын

They took Ta bat and nobody could even say boo.

@starfish253 8 ай бұрын

Nice. Video evidence for the courts

@jww000 8 ай бұрын

Most billionaires in China sent their wealth and kids to the western world. Jimmy didn’t run away. He’s a real courageous man.

@franktoh3041 8 ай бұрын

The CIA guaranteed his safety that's why he didn't run away. He did try to escape subsequently but failed. Jimmy Lie is going to jail for a long long time.😂😂😂

@rozyue1177 8 ай бұрын

Jail? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👎

@cheehincheong6719 8 ай бұрын

@1177,he has been jailed since then 6 months