China’s jailing of Jimmy Lai, a Catholic layman, has been widely condemned. But there’s one place where China’s bullying elicits only silence: the Vatican… …

Jimmy Lai has embraced his destiny. Last Wednesday the founder of one of Hong Kong’s most popular newspapers, Apple Daily, was arrested on ginned-up fraud charges. On Thursday he was clapped into jail as a national security risk. Thus did a man who started the week a Hong Kong billionaire end it a Chinese dissident.

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