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Image:  Protesters waving the Hong Kong colonial flags in front of the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong. (Public domain) D: Michael Yon, veteran war correspondent who’s been covering the Hong Kong protests, in re: Be careful when they arrest freedom-speakers. In Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai and others, then 115 more. Beatings, night after night. Insurgency diminished during the time of the China Plague, but only to avoid large groups. The emotions and fighting spirit are as strong as ever.  Jimmy Lai; publisher Apple Daily, the sole free paper in HK. He and other advocates were scooped up for a protest months ago. This is an effort to decapitate the freedom movement. When my wife and I and several others were dining at Jimmy Lai’s house some months ago, we left and his house was firebombed to intimidate him. Since he can't be  intimidated, they had to arrest him. Apple Daily is quite popular in Taiwan as well as in Hong Kong.  The Chinese Communist Party continues to make huge errors in judgment. They're making Jimmy and two others  into martyrs.  Implementing actins to please Xi Jinping, but [displeasing] Hong Kong.  They keep doubling down on what doesn't work—the definition of insanity. Consistently beating and tear-gassing people.  Xi is really hardheaded and cannot admit error.    Thailand has named Covid-19 “seasonal flu.”  It's gonna sneak up and smash everybody. ..  ..  ..   https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3052721/wuhan-killer/index.html?src=pm On January 13, a 61-year-old Chinese tourist in Bangkok was diagnosed with the coronavirus, but she had had no reported contact with the seafood market. “That raised the flag that something unusual is happening,” says Huang, who then started to question the official narrative that the disease was not spreading. On January 15, Wuhan’s health commission shifted its tone in an online statement: “The possibility of limited human-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out.” While health authorities were starting to acknowledge the possibility that the virus was jumping between humans, and hospitals were under siege, elsewhere in Wuhan, city bureaucrats had their attention on other matters, including celebrations and feasts. Party officials were in the midst of a two-week chain of meetings to laud achievements of the past year and plan for 2020. From January 6, thousands of delegates from the city- and provincial-level People’s Congress and People’s Political Consultative Conference had gathered in Wuhan for their annual conclaves. Delegates presented proposals like easing subway security checks for airport passengers and mobile apps that reward environmentally friendly behaviour. Filling the Hongshan Auditorium, decorated with party slogans and red drapery, they lauded the eight “joyous occasions” that marked 2019 – hosting military games, a revolutionary from Hubei winning a national honour, and regional per capita GDP