Hong Kong's Martin Lee

Was recently reminded of Martin Lee (李柱铭), one of Hong Kong's most well-known pro-democracy activists, while reading an account of the territory's history.

In 1991, Lee told a House of Representatives human rights committee that "Britain's hand over of 5.5 million Hong Kong people to China may be likened to the hand over of 5.5 million Jewish people to Nazi Germany during World War II." (Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States, 1945-1992)

Sometimes reading about fairly contemporary history can be such great fun. It put issues in such great perspective.

I only hope that those comments have not come back to haunt Lee. People usually have short memories, but certainly not the CCP.