From my friend and colleague @frances_hui : “As I write these words in exile, I often think about the teenagers we were in Scholarism, brought together by the desire for a better future in the city we loved. Without Joshua stepping forward at such a young age, many of us might never have realized that we too have a voice. Exile is not freedom in its fullest sense. But each morning in the United States, I wake up able to speak and organize. Joshua cannot. That freedom gives me a responsibility to use the voice he has been denied. Joshua would not want his case to eclipse the hundreds of other political prisoners in Hong Kong. Before his imprisonment, he regularly drew attention to people facing even greater risks than his own. But forgetting Joshua would serve the authorities’ purpose. The U.S. and other democratic governments should publicly make Joshua’s release — and that of other political prisoners in Hong Kong — a priority in every high-level discussion with Beijing. Leaders who once praised his courage should not fall silent when defending him requires taking concrete actions and spending diplomatic capital.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…