Letters | In championing Nathan Law, US media is whitewashing his record
- Law has been charged with attending an illegal assembly in Victoria Park in 2020 and made remarks on many occasions that violate the national security law
Over the past weeks, American media outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have all run reports or opinion articles highlighting the “injustice” facing Nathan Law Kwun-chung. Unsurprisingly, they play down two facts: Law’s poor record and the tricks of the United States.
Having cast the threat to US “democracy” as being from the outside, these outlets have ignored American political polarisation, systemic racism and the trust deficit in the government – real challenges to the US social system.
“You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time”. These words attributed to Abraham Lincoln still ring true today. Nathan Law and the American media cannot deceive fair-minded people in real life, but for their fictional films, they do deserve two Oscar statuettes, for Best Actor and Best Director.
Li Hua, spokesperson, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in the Hong Kong SAR