The ‘Free Jimmy Lai’ Movement Isn’t What You Think It Is
The global campaign to free Jimmy Lai looks like a grassroots human rights movement. But what if your outrage has been engineered? Drawing on Scott Ritter’s warnings and Gilbert Doctorow’s research on agents of influence, this piece exposes how high-profile political prisoners become geopolitical mascots — and how your empathy gets converted into someone else’s strategic leverage.