U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he would speak to Chinese leader Xi Jinping about releasing Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai during his upcoming visit to China.
“Hong Kong was not as easy. But I will be bringing him up,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt when asked whether he would raise Lai’s case directly with Xi when they sit down in Beijing next week.
The president mentioned that he had previously discussed Lai’s case with Xi during their October 2025 meeting in South Korea.
“I brought him up,” Trump said in the interview, which aired on May 4. “There’s a little bitterness, I would say, with him and Jimmy Lai. ”…
Trump Says He Will Talk to China’s Xi About Jailed Hong Kong Democracy Activist Jimmy Lai
