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Thursday, December 19, 2019

China cools Sweden business ties after minister awards prize to Gui Minhai

Business trips called off after Swedish culture minister awards rights prize to detained dissident

China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai in defiance of Beijing’s threat of “counter-measures”.

Tensions between the two countries have been strained since Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen who is known for publishing scandalous books about Chinese political leaders out of a Hong Kong book shop, disappeared in 2015 before resurfacing on the mainland.

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