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Letters

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.
What is different is that Ms Meng is roaming around Vancouver relatively freely and living in her own home; meanwhile, Mr Lai sits in a prison cell.
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
Your correspondent Robert Travers (“Hong Kong’s love of Chinese history and culture should be enough for Beijing”, November 21) misses an agreed fact about China – the efficiency of one-party rule in the mainland – thereby distorting the whole picture.
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.


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

  
 


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Meng Wanzhou

What’s good for Meng Wanzhou can be good for Jimmy Lai

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou wears an ankle monitor as she leaves home for an extradition hearing in Vancouver on January 20. Meng was arrested at Vancouver airport on a US warrant while changing planes in December 2018. The US wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Photo: Reuters

Beijing’s liaison office condemns death threat against Hong Kong magistrate in Jimmy Lai case as ‘open challenge’ to national security law

The Law Society says public confidence in the impartial administration of justice will not shaken by criminal threats. Photo: Reuters

Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak. HANDOUT PHOTO

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai takes rival newspaper to court over ‘inflammatory’ article

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. Photo: Dickson Lee

General view of The High Court in Admiralty. 18JUN20 SCMP/ Warton Li

Meng Wanzhou case: arresting Huawei exec on plane would have been too risky, Canadian officer tells court

Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday. Photo: AP

Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a hearing at the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Friday. Photo: AP