NYT > World News Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump Par :Tiffany May and David Pierson 28 août 2025 à 04:32 As the outspoken Hong Kong publisher awaits a verdict, his trial has become a test of China’s resolve to crush dissent, and of whether President Trump can free him. © Yat Kai Yeung/NurPhoto, via Getty ImagesJimmy Lai in Hong Kong in December 2020, when he was ordered back to jail, just days after he had been granted bail.