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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison under Hong Kong’s controversial national security law. The 78-year-old also spent five years in solitary confinement while battling heart conditions and diabetes.

Mark Simon, a former aide to Lai and a listed co-conspirator in the case, told TaiwanPlus in an exclusive interview that “the trial of Jimmy Lai and the trial of many others has proved that there’s really not an English legal system there anymore. There's not the rule of law that that was a pillar of Hong Kong.”

Simon also warns that Taiwan should view what happened in Hong Kong as a signal of whether Beijing will honor any promises.

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00:00Jimmy was pro-democracy because he believed in democracy.
00:03But that was after we protect the one country, two systems, which I think people in Taiwan
00:08look at and say, OK, when we're offered a deal with the Chinese, can we expect the deal
00:14to be held up to?
00:15And the answer is no.
00:17Jimmy is part of that answer for the Taiwanese people.
00:20He is your canary in the coal mine.
00:22Taiwanese just need to come to grips.
00:24Even the KMT, you're your own people, you're an identity, and the CCP will not allow that.
00:34So I got some bad news for you.
00:36They're not going to come over here and say, oh, we want you to be this.
00:40They are scrubbing the identity of Hong Kong as it is, as nonchalant as Cantonese culture
00:46was.
00:46They're scrubbing it.
00:47They will scrub Taiwanese culture.
00:49So I myself think that the idea that there is some middle ground, there is some hope for
01:00people that you can make this deal with the devil, it's not there.
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