The Hong Kong government has condemned a joint statement by four ex-consuls general in Hong Kong, which expressed “dismay and concern” over a fellow former diplomat being named as a “co-conspirator” in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. The open letter signed by Richard Boucher, Stephen Young, Richard Mueller and James Keith published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday amounted to “interference” and contained a “slanderous statement,” the Hong Kong government said in a statement issued on Thursday evening. Titled “U.S. Consuls General Stand With Jimmy Lai,” the…
