Commentary During the final week of January, an ominous series of articles in Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper owned by China’s liaison office, accuse Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, and Christian churches there of inciting student riots against repressive measures in 2019. Four vitriolic articles, all underscoring the need for greater control, resemble a denunciation campaign of the kind portending a new crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The first article also accuses the 90-year-old cardinal of associating with Hong Kong entrepreneur and founder of the pro-democracy media Apple Daily Jimmy Lai and former Hong Kong legislator Martin Lee, both Catholics arrested for their strong pro-democracy stance. Mr. Lai is currently serving a 14-month prison term, on a conviction of “inciting riots,” after he attended a peaceful candlelight vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The report further appears to draw similarities between the clergyman …