Letters | What’s good for Meng Wanzhou can be good for Jimmy Lai
With the judicial cases of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and Meng Wanzhou recently featured in the Post, I was struck by the similarities and the differences of approach to their cases.
What they have in common is that neither case has gone to trial yet. Both have also been deemed flight risks and had their movements restricted.
The difference is that Canada makes use of an ankle bracelet with tracking technology to monitor Ms Meng’s movements and make sure that she does not try to flee, while Hong Kong does not.
Surely it should not be difficult for Hong Kong to adopt the use of ankle bracelets as well, to allow those who are presumed innocent until proven guilty to enjoy the freedom that bail allows. Hong Kong comes across as both a technological dinosaur and inhumane in denying such bail.
Keith Noyes, Clear Water Bay
Coronavirus battle a success story for one-party rule
Consider how the Covid-19 outbreak, which was on the verge of spreading all over the country, was quite largely contained in Wuhan and Hubei province. This is a distinctly successful example of how a stringent consensus approach works.
It does not waste time by debating this or that concern but takes brilliantly deployed administrative measures to gain back control of the pandemic situation in just six months’ time, protecting millions of lives and livelihoods from the health and economic crises, without having to depend on the distant arrival of a vaccine.
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Chinese city of Wuhan sends off first international passenger flight since coronavirus outbreak
Meanwhile, the world’s leading developed democracy, the United States, is still struggling nearly a year on, with huge casualties, a high death toll as well as a slowing economy, but it remains without an administrative clue about how to clamp down on the virus until the widespread use of the vaccine becomes a reality next year.
One of the mottos of communist one-party China is to serve the people, or protect the majority interest. Sure, there are pros and cons to different administrative measures. However, the Western world is always exaggerating the situation to attack China and boost their own ego.
Edmond Pang, Fanling
