Native Chinese Hong Konger here.

I don't like Junius Ho myself, but I think the LA Times translation of that quote is incorrect.

生路 and 死路 in Chinese don't literally mean "path of being alive" and "path of being dead". They are figurative, more appropriately translated as "free/open path" and "dead end". So Ho isn't really making threats about Chu's life, but more like abstract "consequences", maybe legal, maybe career-wise, maybe popularity-wise. Frankly, I don't know what Ho can do. I don't think Ho has enough evidence that Chu's supporter(s) vandalized his parents' graves and that Chu knows the exact perpetrator(s). Otherwise Ho would have provided that evidence to the police and the police would have made arrests already.

That's when you get when your country is run by a dictator with supreme powers -- everyone is at the behest of his/her mood (and of those who follow their direct orders), including other countries with which they may enter more conflicts because they are personally offended by them. There's no body of representatives to keep that mood in check.

Reread what our Declaration of Independence says about indigenous Americans, coupled with what happened

US threatens to wipe foreigners out as well. See Trump solving the war by threatening to wipe out population of Afghanistan.

That's not what he said. He said he wouldn't - the very opposite of a threat.

"If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people."