After 26 years in operation, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apply Daily was forced to shut down on June 24, after Beijing froze its assets and arrested several of its journalists for violating the “National Security Law.” “It is a sad day for media freedom in Hong Kong and around the world,” President Joe Biden said in a June 24 statement, hours after the publication’s formal closure. While stating that people “in Hong Kong have the right to freedom of the press,” Biden called on Beijing to “stop targeting the independent press and release the journalists and media executives that have been detained.” One of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “Wolf Warriors” wasted no time hitting back at Biden’s criticism. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a newspaper run by the CCP, tweeted the same day, “What about Trump’s Twitter account?” While I agree that banning a former president’s social …