“For mainland Chinese who desire freedom and democracy, Hong Kong is like the lighthouse for a boat in the open sea,” Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng says about the unrest in Hong Kong in a brief but moving on-camera prediction to The Daily Signal.

Chen, the blind lawyer and scholar best known for exposing horrific “family planning” practices under the One Child Policy of China’s Communist regime, commented on the example of Hong Kong’s freedom movement after an appearance Thursday at The Heritage Foundation.

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