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

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

4 months ago

The UK pushed hard to secure the release of Jimmy Lai, the newspaper publisher and British citizen who was a leading light in Hong Kong’s brutally suppressed pro-democracy movement. So, too, did press freedom and human rights campaigners. But the Beijing-appointed high court judges in the former colony convicted him anyway, finding Lai guilty last week on fake charges of trying to “destabilise” the Chinese Communist party (CCP). For Xi Jinping, China’s dictator-emperor, there is no greater crime.

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