China gives UK diplomat ‘big thumbs up’ for saving drowning student in Chongqing | South China Morning Post

China’s government has praised a UK diplomat who recently dived into a river in Chongqing to save a drowning student. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said the woman was saved by an “act of bravery” on the part of 61-year-old Stephen Ellison, Britain’s consul general in the southwestern city. The spoke…

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