WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would see what he could do to help “save” detained Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, even though Chinese President Xi Jinping would not be “thrilled.”

“I’m going to do everything I can to save him,” Trump told Fox News Radio in an interview. “We’ll see what we can do … we’re going to do everything we can.”

Lai, 77, has pleaded not guilty to charges under Hong Kong’s national security law of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, as well as to a separate charge of conspiracy to publish seditious material. He has been held in solitary confinement for more than 1,500 days since December 2020.

Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson for China’s embassy in Washington, said Lai had been “a key orchestrator and participant in anti-

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