AP Discovers China's 'National Security' is Like Ours, Just Different Accent
Hong Kong's 'pro-democracy media mogul' Jimmy Lai faces a verdict under China's National Security Law, prompting earnest hand-wringing from the AP about choked dissent. This comes just five years after the US government, in its infinite wisdom, declared Julian Assange a spy for the rather similar act of publishing inconvenient truths. (The hypocrisy, one muses, is almost symmetrical.) While the AP
chronicles China's 'sweeping crackdown,' they omit any uncomfortable parallels with America's use of its ESPIONAGE Act against journalists or whistleblowers exposing state secrets. (One man's 'collusion with foreign forces' is another man's 'journalism of consequence,' depending on whose national security is being secured, apparently.)