Commentary Just over a week ago, the Hong Kong Police and National Security Law threatened a foreign national, living outside Hong Kong, and a foreign-registered charity, based in London, with a fine of US$13,000 and anything between a year and life imprisonment, if they did not take down their website—run out of the United Kingdom—within 72 hours of receipt of their letters. In addition to it being shocking that the Hong Kong authorities, clearly acting on the instructions of their puppet-masters in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime in Beijing, should try to silence a British organization and a British activist, the charges and the threat are patently laughable. As one distinguished former British politician said in reaction to hearing about this: “Oh they are such idiots.” The Chinese regime is not always an idiot—sometimes it can be dangerously clever, and I do not underestimate it. But in this instance …