Jimmy Lai’s family lost everything in the Communist Party takeover of China in 1949. When he was just 12 years old, he stowed away on a fishing boat and made his way to Hong Kong, where he built a retail empire and became a multimillionaire, on his way to becoming a billionaire. But the deaths of hundreds of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 spurred him to activism.
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