US President Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy secretary of state, Kurt Campbell, has testified at a confirmation hearing that the US did not invite Hong Kong’s John Lee to last month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. However, the local government has said it remains an “indisputable fact” that Lee received a personal invitation. On Friday, the diplomat was pressed as to why the sanctions-hit leader’s insistence that he was invited had not been not refuted by Washington. “We made clear to both Hong Kong and China authorities that he would not be welcome,” Campbell…
