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The railroading of Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai shows you can't expect justice in Hong Kong, writes Alex Frew McMillan, who says the publisher of Hong Kong's biggest tabloid was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for violating a lease, much like Al Capone was sentenced for tax evasion.

China taunts the Western world for not taking monkeypox seriously enough, much as the West supposedly "laid flat" for Covid-19.

In a sign of mounting animosity between China and Hollywood, a Chinese state-run newspaper blamed the U.S. entertainment industry's "distorted values" on Thursday, and its failure to grasp Chinese culture, for China's decision to block the release of more Hollywood movies.