Trump said that he is ‘not optimistic’ about Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping releasing Catholic freedom advocate Jimmy Lai, despite Lai’s old age and health problems.
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During his visit to China, from 12 to 15 May, Donald Trump was to discuss with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the situation of Jimmy Lai, emblematic press boss and fervent Catholic. But the US president failed to reach an agreement to free this figure of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.