Court documents reveal Prince Andrew sent Chinese President Xi Jinping birthday letter every year

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Britain’s Prince Andrew sent Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter on his birthday every year as part of a “communication channel” to support the British royal’s platform for entrepreneurs, according to court documents. The documents came to light on Friday following a legal challenge brought by Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo, who was described as a “close confidant” of Andrew and was banned from Britain on the grounds he was a suspected Chinese spy. Yang, who has said “the widespread description of me as a ‘spy’ is entirely untrue”, is appealing against the rejection of his challenge to the decision to...