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Jimmy Lai, media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, convicted in Hong Kong

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan talks with Mark Clifford, author of “The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic,” about Lai’s conviction in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong on Monday.

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