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On Thursday, May 29, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded an Honorary Bradley Prize to Jimmy Lai, a political prisoner of China’s General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.
Lai was a serial entrepreneur who began with thing and founded and grew large businesses successful China earlier his imprisonment, wherever his Hong Kong-based media organizations, including Apple News, prospered and wherever helium had go a awesome of escaped code successful the embattled city.
Lai is besides the astir salient persecuted Catholic successful the satellite and should beryllium each that Pope Leo XIV needs to cognize astir Xi and his sinister plans for the religion successful China. (Leo should exit the ill-advised statement his predecessor entered into with the Chinese communists, an statement that is arsenic sacrilegious arsenic it is unsafe to the worldwide church.)
Lai believed profoundly successful the rights of Hong Kong residents guaranteed them erstwhile the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China successful 1997. At that clip the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China entered into an agreement, known arsenic the Sino-British Joint Declaration, successful which the PRC committed to the United Kingdom that Hong Kong citizens would clasp their precocious grade of autonomy and the preservation of their capitalist strategy and mode of beingness for 50 years.
Sebastien Lai holds a photograph of his father, Jimmy Lai, astatine the 2025 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. (UN Watch)
This included the close to a abstracted executive, legislative and autarkic judicial strategy isolated from that of Beijing’s, arsenic good arsenic freedoms of assembly, code and the press. The satellite tin judge Xi’s credibility by his actions vis-à-vis Jimmy Lai.
The Bradley Foundation awards its prizes to individuals whose enactment exemplifies the foundation's ngo to beforehand American exceptionalism and the Western tradition. It recognizes individuals who person made important contributions to scholarship, taste institutions oregon nationalist policy, often with a absorption connected blimpish oregon classical wide themes. The foundation’s determination to item the plight of Jimmy Lai was an honorable and important measurement successful bringing attraction to his captivity successful solitary confinement and nether harsh conditions.
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Xi present faces a dilemma. He rightly indispensable reason that Lai’s lawsuit is soaring successful the attraction it receives astir the satellite and that harsh judgments of Xi by the world’s leaders and its businesses travel attraction to the case.
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Xi ought besides to fearfulness what the martyrdom of Lai would mean successful the longer word for China. Who wants to put in, overmuch little visit, a state truthful cruel arsenic to imprison a 77-year-old and progressively frail antheral of faith?
Did Xi larn thing from the illness of the Soviet Union, which was preceded by the world’s attraction connected Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky and Vladimir Bukovsky? High-profile dissidents are mostly forgotten erstwhile they are exiled from their countries. The United Kingdom would judge Lai if Xi expelled him, but Xi’s estimation for ruthlessness lone increases and frankincense the world’s wariness lone climbs the longer Lai remains imprisoned.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio person already linked their legacies to the freeing of Lai, and Pope Leo’s is present inextricably connected to the heroic witnesser for the religion that Lai is living. We tin commune the Bradley Foundation has provided the spark the satellite needed to absorption connected Lai.
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"As you tin see, I americium not Jimmy Lai," Jimmy Lai’s lad Sebastian said connected accepting the Bradley Prize successful his father’s spot connected May 29. "Instead of being present with you fantastic people, accepting this prestigious award, my begetter sits successful a maximum-security jailhouse successful Hong Kong arsenic a high-risk class a prisoner. He’s successful jailhouse successful Hong Kong for the aforesaid crushed helium is being celebrated here, for courageousness successful the look of oppression."
We should anticipation everyone successful the satellite doing concern with China realizes they are complicit successful the harsh imprisonment of Jimmy Lai. They person the quality to entreaty to Xi to #FreeJimmyLai arsenic the hashtag puts it. Will they usage it?
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