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Kim Strassel discusses the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai and its implications with William McGurn.

Donald Trump will travel to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Trump has said that one issue he will bring up during the meeting is the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against the National Security Law. On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel speaks with Lai’s close friend and Wall Street Journal Opinion columnist William McGurn about what led to Lai’s arrest and why his cause has been taken up by journalists around the world.

People in this episode

Host: Kim Strassel

Guest: William McGurn

Topics covered

• imprisonment
• China
• National Security Law
• journalism
• politics
• US-China relations

Keywords

• Jimmy Lai
• Donald Trump
• Xi Jinping
• National Security Law
• China
• politics
• journalism

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Organizations: Wall Street Journal

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