A former #AppleDaily translator's reflection on the impact of the paper's forced closure: "I’m afraid because I’ve been an accomplice. Since May 2020, I have led a small team that translated Apple Daily’s editorials and opinions from Chinese to English..." wsj.com/articles/i-tra…
"These arrests hit close to home, even though I live in the U.S. As a translator, I came to know Apple Daily’s journalists so intimately that I could identify the author of an editorial piece solely from the cadence and rhythm of the writing."
"Mr. Yeung was the last one to make it on Apple Daily’s English-language website before it went dark. Of the five editorial writers, he wrote in the style that would be most accessible to a mainland audience, and was often dead-on with his criticisms of mainland politics."
"Mr. Yeung was arrested on “suspicion of conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security.” Is the translator also considered part of the conspiracy?"
"I could have come up with a list of reasons why he was the only editorial and opinion writer arrested so far. Or I could have been overanalyzing things. I didn’t know—and that’s the point, because the real trick to the Chinese Communists’ red line is that it is invisible."
"Apple Daily’s death comes when it’s more important than ever for journalists to tell the world what’s happening in Hong Kong. In the past year China imposed the National Security Law by fiat, postponed Hong Kong’s Legco elections and further rigged the political system."
"As the rest of the world recovers from Covid-19 pandemic, Hong Kong falls deeper into the abyss. Every day seems like it could be the last, for anything could happen in the next minute."
"We are all witnesses to history. It is more critical than ever for those of us who are able to speak out to do so, because the death of Apple Daily is proof of how much the regime fears words."
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