{"id":9355,"date":"2024-05-14T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:48:11","slug":"hong-kong-leader-criticizes-britain-after-arrest-of-trade-official-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9355","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader criticizes Britain after arrest of trade official in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/01000000-0aff-0242-0dc3-08dc740d3da4_w800_h450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is criticizing the arrest of a key trade official in Britain on allegations of spying for the city\u2019s foreign intelligence service. <\/p>\n<p>Bill Yuen, who manages Hong Kong\u2019s Economic and Trade Office in London, and two other men, Peter Wei and Matthew Trickett, were granted bail when they appeared in a London courtroom Monday. They are accused of \u201cagreeing to undertake information gathering, surveillance and acts of deception\u201d between December 2023 and May 2024. The charges were brought under Britain\u2019s new national security act.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Lee has denied the allegations. During a press briefing Tuesday, he warned that any attempt \u201cto interfere with the work of ETO offices in different places will be against free trade and free economy,\u201d and would harm the economies of countries that \u201ctry and do bad things\u201d to ETO offices. <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry issued a statement warning the case could erode relations between Beijing and London. Tensions between the sides have risen over China\u2019s crackdown on pro-democracy and dissenting voices in Hong Kong in recent months. <\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s foreign ministry summoned China\u2019s envoy Tuesday to lodge a formal protest over the allegations. <\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is a former British colony that was returned to Chinese control in 1997. The handover included an agreement for China to allow Hong Kong to enjoy freedoms and a degree of autonomy not enjoyed on mainland China. <\/p>\n<p><em>Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/hong-kong-leader-criticizes-britain-after-arrest-of-trade-official-in-london-\/7610319.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is criticizing the arrest of a key trade official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hong Kong leader criticizes Britain after arrest 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