Michael Barbaro

Did any part of you think about going anyway?

I mean, I know your father freed you from the obligations of being a freedom fighter, you know, taking over his business, but did any part of you think, I should go back?

I don't mean to be provocative, but I'm curious if not going back entails any kind of feelings of guilt.

Seeing him again as a free man.

Hmm.

If the advocacy you're doing to try to get him out were to work.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Do you have any contact with your dad right now in prison?

He sends you letters?

Is there anything he said to you in a letter that you can share with us?

Do you know if he still sings?

I mean, are you wondering...

if there's really any chance you're ever going to see him again?

Or does it feel to you like you really have lost your dad in all of this?

What, in your mind, is the scenario in which he is freed?

Is it Western leaders negotiating his release?

But you know this well, and I don't mean to diminish what is no doubt such an agonizing situation for you, but what China accomplishes by doing what they're doing to your father is telling everyone in Hong Kong that protest is futile.

Because look what we can do.

Look what we have done to one of the richest and most powerful men in the city.