By Hank TopperAs a volunteer neighborhood leader and a democratic activist in the US, I want to express my strong support for your efforts to maintain and strengthen democracy in Hong Kong. We always entered and exited China through Hong Kong and we grew to love, and still love, your city and its great vitality. My experience of life in China also helped me appreciate the freedom and democracy in my home. Speaking as an American democratic activist, I can assure you that we still do have a democracy in the US. It is threatened and under attack by our own authoritarian president and his party and by foreign powers working to undermine democracy.

Source: Taipei Times January 02, 2020 15:56 UTC