Four bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress recently jointly signed a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, opposing the invitation of Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu to attend the APEC summit in November.
The next Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) will be held in San Francisco in November this year (2023). Four bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress have recently jointly signed a letter to Blinken opposing the invitation of Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu to attend. They claimed that by inviting Lee to the summit, who was a senior member of the Hong Kong government that violently suppressed peaceful protesters in 2019, would send a terrible signal to human rights violators around the world.
