Apple Daily journalists hold freshly-printed copies of the newspaper's last edition while acknowledging supporters gathered outside their office in Hong Kong early on June 24, 2021. The pro-democracy tabloid was forced to close after 26 years under a sweeping new national security law. Daniel Suen/AFP via Getty Images
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve been a longtime fan of Hong Kong. From my first visit to this amazing used-to-be entrepreneurial city in 1971, when it was a jewel as the British Crown colony, providing a window and a door to mysterious mainland communist China, Hong Kong has been a center of freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, and the rule of law.
