UK accused of false accusations against Chinese citizens

China has accused Britain of false accusation, “wanton stigmatisation” and arbitrary arrests after the unexplained death of a man charged with illegally assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service. China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong said in a statement on its website that it strongly condemned Britain for what it said were false accusations against Chinese citizens, infringing their lawful rights. Britain’s acts were “a wanton stigmatisation of China and arbitrary arrests and prosecutions of Chinese citizens in the United Kingdom”, it said. Tensions between Beijing and London have been rising over China’s sweeping national security crackdown since 2019, when…