Exiled activist, Nathan Law, speaks to assembled press outside the Italian Foreign Ministry where China’s foreign minister Wang Yi met Italian officials. Previous NextA network of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have disrupted a week-long European charm offensive by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, by demanding European leaders raise the issue of human rights, The Guardian reports. Hong Kong activists were delighted that the Dutch foreign minister, Stef Blok, described developments in Hong Kong as “worrying”. Asked about a call for the Norwegian Nobel committee to grant the peace prize to the people of Hong Kong, Wang warned against politicising the prize. Germany, China’s chief European trade partner, is seen by Hong Kong activists as the critical stage of the trip partly because German opinion on China is in flux, including within the ruling coalition.

Source: The Standard August 28, 2020 15:33 UTC