Diplomat testifies Hong Kong’s John Lee not invited to US APEC forum; local gov’t says invite remains ‘indisputable fact’

Diplomat testifies Hong Kong’s John Lee not invited to US APEC forum; local gov’t says invite remains ‘indisputable fact’

US President Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy secretary of state, Kurt Campbell, has testified at a confirmation hearing that the US did not invite Hong Kong’s John Lee to last month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. However, the local government has said it remains an “indisputable fact” that Lee received a personal invitation. On Friday, the diplomat was pressed as to why the sanctions-hit leader’s insistence t…