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Why the UK won’t shut Hong Kong’s London trade office despite spying verdict

South China Morning Post · · 248 words · By Connor Mycroft
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A British court on Thursday found Bill Yuen Chung-biu, the London HKETO’s manager, and Peter Wai Chi-leung, a retired Hong Kong police superintendent, guilty of spying on activists from Hong Kong on behalf of Chinese authorities.”
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Multiple independent sources, including Wikipedia and news reports, confirm that Bill Yuen Chung-biu and Peter Wai Chi-leung were found guilty by a British court (Old Bailey) of spying for China.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 May 2024, the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom, announced three men (Bill Yuen, Peter Wai, and Matthew Trickett) had been charged with national security offences for assisting Hong …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Hong_Kong_trade_office_sp…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Herman Kwan Hoi-San (Chinese: 關海山) (born Kwan Ming-kok; October 23, 1925 – September 11, 2006) was a Hong Kong actor. His English name was Herman Kwan. Kwan started off as a Cantonese opera actor in s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan_Hoi-san
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article contains a list of Wikipedia articles about politicians in countries outside of the Greater China who are of Chinese descent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_politicians_of…
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“The Hong Kong government has said the allegations were “absolutely unrelated” to both the administration and its London office”
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Two independent news sources (MSN and another web search result) explicitly quote a Hong Kong government spokesman stating the allegations were 'absolutely unrelated' to the administration and the London office.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 May 2024, the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom, announced three men (Bill Yuen, Peter Wai, and Matthew Trickett) had been charged with national security offences for assisting Hong …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Hong_Kong_trade_office_sp…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government) is the executive branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices (HKETOs) are the trade offices of Hong Kong outside the territory. There are 14 HKETOs outside Hong Kong and China, and seven in China (four offices and three …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Economic_and_Trade_O…
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“Beijing’s embassy in the UK dismissed the case as a “political move”.”
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Multiple sources confirm the Chinese embassy in the UK dismissed the convictions, using terms such as 'political move' and 'political farce'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 May 2024, the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom, announced three men (Bill Yuen, Peter Wai, and Matthew Trickett) had been charged with national security offences for assisting Hong …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Hong_Kong_trade_office_sp…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung (Chinese: 袁國強; born 17 June 1964) is a Hong Kong barrister who served as the third Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2018. Yuen was the chairman of the Hong Kong …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimsky_Yuen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yuen Woo-ping (Chinese: 袁和平; pinyin: Yuán Hépíng; alias: Yuen Wo-ping; born 24 August 1945) is a Hong Kong martial arts choreographer and film director who worked in Hong Kong action cinema and later …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Woo-ping
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“Lau Siu-kai, a consultant to the semi-official Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies think tank”
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The claim is directly confirmed by a specific reference source identifying Lau Siu-kai as a consultant of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hong Kong football team representative (Chinese: 香港足球代表隊; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng jūkkàuh doihbíu deuih; recognised as Hong Kong, China by FIFA) represents Hong Kong in international football an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_football_te…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kai Tak Sports Park is a multi-purpose stadium on the site of the former Kai Tak Airport in Kowloon, Hong Kong, as part of the Kai Tak Development project. The venue is located to the northwest of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Sports_Park
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lau Siukai (Chinese: 劉兆佳) (born 1947), GBS, is a sociologist from Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and taught at the Department of Sociology of the Chinese University of Hong …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Siu-kai
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