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6 months ago

China has set a bear trap for Keir Starmer – and our naive PM is walking straight into it | Simon Tisdall ⊖⊖

The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses?

The UK pushed hard to secure the release of Jimmy Lai, the newsp…

Carmen Lau, a pro-democracy activist who fled Hong Kong seeking sanctuary in the UK four years ago, was in Berlin when she was told people had received pornographic images of her.
Lai, who is facing life in prison, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him "everything".

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