President Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall and said Mr Gorbachev, ‘tear down this wall’.
Kennedy stood before it and said ‘Heute ich bin ein Berliner’ (today I am a Berliner).
I would like to see Biden stand on the border of communist China and say, ‘Mr Xi, free all the Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and House Christians from the gaols and concentration camps. Get out of East Turkestan and Tibet. Give back the people of Hong Kong back the freedom they had under British rule. Today, I am a Uyghur, a Tibetan and a Falun Gong practitioner!’.


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