'Killing the chicken to scare the monkey': what Jimmy Lai's arrest means for Hong Kong's independent media
- Written by Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne
The arrest this week of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong reveals the repressive reality of the city’s new made-in-China national security law.
It also sends a sharp signal to the remaining independent media in the territory: watch your step, or you could be next.
Lai, his two sons and four top executives of the...