‘Don’t Have Any Wishful Thinking That China Will Change for the Better’: Hong Kong Writer

Simon Lee, a former columnist at Apple Daily, at the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 15, 2022. The Epoch Times

Hong Kong’s freedom, financial status, and democracy have been eroded since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) takeover in 1997, as noted by Simon Lee, economics writer and former executive of the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.

“Don’t have high hopes for change here,” as Hong Kong “is no longer a free society,” Mr. Lee said in an interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”