British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday an incident where a protester was seen being pulled into the grounds of a Chinese consulate and beaten was “unacceptable”.
The incident, which occurred in Manchester, northern England, during a demonstration against Chinese President Xi Jinping, led to Britain summoning China’s Charge d’Affaires in London on Tuesday to explain what had happened.
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“That was unacceptable,” Cleverly said of the incident, adding the protests had been peaceful and legal.