Just last week, we had a bill of over 400 votes to three of establishing a favorable policy toward Hong Kong. I just came from the Hong Kong meeting about Jimmy Lai, who was the journalist who's arrested now for four years for just speaking his truth in violation of the Basic Law. which we were fighting with the Brits at the time when the transition went from in the late nineties, 1997, from Britain to China. (27:10–27:20)
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Asserts that journalist Jimmy Lai has been arrested for four years for speaking out, violating the Basic Law.
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