Modern-Day Martyr: Meet The Self-Made Billionaire Who Is Sacrificing It All For God, by Christopher Bedford

In Western universities and board rooms, souls are cheap. But Jimmy Lai’s is not.

By Christopher Bedford, The Federalist, July 1, 2021

In Hong Kong right now, Jimmy Lai is sacrificing all — his fortune and possibly his life — for his God, his fellow man, and for freedom.

Lai is a billionaire, although he wasn’t always one. Born two years before the Communists defeated the nationalists in China’s civil war, his father fled and his mother was sent to a labor camp when he was a young child. Carrying bags for train passengers and getting by as a street vendor, he first tasted freedom when a man from British Hong Kong gave him a bar of chocolate. …