'It is incredibly important that we protect media freedom.... It is incredibly important that journalists can go about their business unmolested and without fear of attack,' says Britain's foreign minister James Cleverly.
The incident has deepened long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of issues including human rights, China’s approach to Taiwan, security laws in Hong Kong and Chinese economic policies.
Speaking on his arrival at a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Bucharest, Britain’s foreign minister James Cleverly said he had instructed that the Chinese envoy be summoned over the incident. On Monday, November 28, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticized the Chinese approach to the protests, saying that instead of listening to its people, the government was choosing to crack down further.
Britain last called in a senior Chinese diplomat to complain in October over the treatment of a man who was protesting outside the Chinese consulate in Manchester, northern England.
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