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Burns met Li on March 16 in a Shanghai prison, Li’s son Harrison said. Li, a businessman, has been held in China since 2016 and was handed a 10-year jail sentence in 2018 for espionage. “The biggest message that my dad wanted to convey is to remind everyone in the US government and the public that … he’s 100 percent innocent,” Harrison Li said. “Of course the US government knows this, but he said it just bears repeating.” Burns wanted to shake Li’s hand but Chinese authorities did not allow that, Harrison Li said. The two could see and hear...
