Drew Pavlou is familiar with the challenges that come when speaking out against the Chinese communist regime on human rights, sometimes resulting in physical attacks, even though he lives in a democracy.
But the 20-year-old student from Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) underestimated the Chinese regime. After he helped organize a pro-Hong Kong rally on UQ’s campus in Brisbane on July 24, the local Chinese consul-general, Xu Jie, issued a statement the following day calling his event “anti-China separatist activities”.
