HONG KONG media tycoon Jimmy Lai was charged with fraud and detained today for illegally using his company’s premises for purposes outside the remit of its lease.
A court denied him bail over the charge and he will remain in custody until a hearing in April.
Mr Lai was arrested under the National Security Law earlier this year for taking part in protests and later released on bail.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ



