Dear reader, Sitting down to write these statements is rarely a happy task, because in many cases, they are written as a response to yet another attempt to silence our reporting. Earlier this week, four masked intruders used sledgehammers to attack the printing press of The Epoch Times edition in Hong Kong. While our staff members are fortunately safe, our printing equipment was damaged to the point where the Hong Kong edition has been forced to stop printing for now. We believe that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is behind the attack. This wasn’t an isolated incident, but the fifth time that our printing press in Hong Kong has been attacked; in a similar attack in 2019, intruders set fire to the same printing press in Hong Kong. The latest attack came just days ahead of a key court date in Hong Kong on the sentencing of pro-democracy activists—a topic …