Hundreds of thousands of extra copies hit shelves on day after office raid
Lai was taken in on suspicion of foreign collusion, though it was not immediately clear what he stood accused of. Chinese communist party officials had called Mr Lai a “traitor” for travelling to the US for a meeting at the White House with the vice president, Mike Pence, and secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.
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