Trump promised to free Jimmy Lai. Xi’s visit is the time to do it.

I’ve spent many hours over the last few years thinking about a man I’ve never met, Jimmy Lai. A newspaperman, media mogul and democracy advocate, Lai, 78, has been languishing in a Hong Kong prison since 2020. As the chief executive of Index on Censorship, I have spent my working life documenting how authoritarian regimes silence…