{"id":77370,"date":"2026-05-16T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/16\/trump-not-optimistic-jimmy-lai-release-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:28:49","slug":"donald-trump-does-not-feel-optimistic-for-jimmy-lai-after-speaking-with-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77370","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump does \u2018not feel optimistic\u2019 for Jimmy Lai after speaking with Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family and supporters had hoped the US president could help free the 78-year-old British citizen during summit talks in Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump raised the case of jailed Hong Kong democracy campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jimmy-lai\">Jimmy Lai<\/a> in talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping but was told it \u201cis a tough one\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Family and supporters of the 78-year-old British citizen had hoped the US president could help secure his release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/16\/trump-not-optimistic-jimmy-lai-release-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family and supporters had hoped the US president could help free the 78-year-old British citizen during summit talks in BeijingDonald Trump raised the case of jailed Hong Kong democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai in talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping but w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"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":[41,50,415,48,3034,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77370","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\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77370\/revisions\/77371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}