US Ambassador Nicholas Burns has the first meetings in more than five years with at least three US citizens. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Chinese-American citizen Kai Li, jailed in China on spying charges he denies, received a rare in-person visit last week from the US Ambassador to Beijing and urged the US government to continue to work for his release, Li’s son said on Friday.
Mr Burns met Li on March 16 in a Shanghai prison, Li’s son Harrison said. Li, a computer scientist, has been held in China since 2016 and was handed a 10-year jail sentence in 2018 for espionage. Mr Burns wanted to shake Li’s hand but Chinese authorities did not allow that, Harrison Li said. The two could see and hear each other in an hour-long meeting through a floor-to-ceiling glass partition, he said.
He did not provide the dates but said Mr Burns visited the men “within the last few weeks” and that “this is the first time he’s actually had a chance to get face-to-face.”
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