{"id":75636,"date":"2025-12-16T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/16\/trump-urges-xi-jinping-to-free-hk-pro-democracy-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:40:28","slug":"trump-urges-xi-jinping-to-free-hk-pro-democracy-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75636","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Xi Jinping to free HK pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he feels \u2018so badly\u2019 about Lai\u2019s conviction and has spoken to the Chinese leader about it<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges\">media mogul\u2019s conviction<\/a> on national security charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,\u201d Trump told reporters on Monday, without specifying when he asked Xi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/16\/trump-urges-xi-jinping-to-free-hk-pro-democracy-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he feels \u2018so badly\u2019 about Lai\u2019s conviction and has spoken to the Chinese leader about itDonald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul\u2019s conviction on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,48,3034,554,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-trump-administration","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75637,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75636\/revisions\/75637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}