TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese human rights activists on Tuesday called on U.S. President Donald Trump to use his visit to Beijing this week to ask for the release of a man charged with political crimes in China. Trump should raise the case of Lee Ming-che when meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping following his arrival in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, activists told The Associated Press. In June the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China added Lee to a database of people it considers political prisoners. Lee’s case has strained already stalemated relations between authoritarian, communist-ruled China and self-governing democratic Taiwan. “We think Lee Ming-che is a political prisoner,” Kao said.

Source: National Post November 07, 2017 05:37 UTC