Hong Kong’s most combative media tycoon, the highest-profile figure arrested under the city’s new security law, discusses his quest for freedom.
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device:Via Apple Podcasts| Via Spotify| Via Stitcher This episode contains strong language. Jimmy Lai was born in mainland China but made his fortune in Hong Kong, starting as a sweatshop worker and becoming a clothing tycoon. After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, he turned his attention to the media, launching publications critical of China’s Communist Party. “I believe in the media,” he told Austin Ramzy, a Hong Kong reporter for The New York Times.
