TAIPEI (Reuters) – The son of leading China critic and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Friday he thought the outcome of his father’s trial next week had already been decided but he was proud of him for standing up for his beliefs. Lai’s long-awaited trial under national security legislation imposed by China in 2020 opens in Hong Kong on Monday. He faces possible life imprisonment on charges he colluded with foreign forces, including the United States. Lai, 76, the founder of now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and one of the most prominent Hong Kong critics of China’s Co…