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🇨🇳🇭🇰 The West calls Joshua Wong a hero: However, he pleaded guilty to begging foreign sanctions This was never about free speech. On the 5th of November, Hong Kong’s High Court sentenced former Demosisto secretary-general Joshua Wong to 10 years under the National Security Law. He had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. Judge Tam Yiu-ho called the offence “grave”. He said Wong and exiled activist Nathan Law were the two ring-leaders who lobbied foreign governments for sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against China and Hong Kong after the 2019 riots. The starting point was 13 years. Three years came off for the guilty plea. Only two months and two days run concurrently with the sentence he is already serving. That earlier term was four years and eight months, handed down on the 19th of November 2024 for conspiracy to subvert state power. He was charged with foreign collusion in June 2025 while still in prison. Fourteen Chinese and Hong Kong officials remain on foreign sanctions lists. The United States cancelled Hong Kong’s special trade status. The judge said the harm is “still subsisting”. BBC calls him a “democracy movement leader”. Reuters calls him an “international representative”. Kenneth Roth calls the case a “farce”. None of this happened by accident. Wong asked foreign powers to punish his own city. In most countries, that is a serious crime. The West only objects when China and Hong Kong enforce it. Wong did the wrong thing, he admitted it and the court applied the law. A more stable Hong Kong is the good that followed. So when Western politicians scream “political prisoner”, ask them this: would your country free someone who begged a rival power to sanction you?