US President Donald Trump said Monday he wanted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to free Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul's conviction.

Lai's conviction is part of a clampdown by China on Hong Kong following mass protests in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump said he felt “badly” about Jimmy Lai’s conviction in a Hong Kong trial and that he had previously asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to consider releasing the former media mogul.

Now that the show trial is over, diplomacy to free him can get serious.

Is Washington moving away from the formula that has governed the tenuous Taiwan Strait equilibrium for 50 years?

The US president voiced regret after the media mogul was convicted on all counts in a national security trial.

United States President Donald Trump said today he had asked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to consider releasing Jimmy ...

Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul who has come to symbolize defiance to Beijing, would devote himself ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He ...

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s ...

Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security ...