Nikkei Asian Review
Subject: BREAKING: Hong Kong no longer autonomous
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BREAKING
NEWS
May 28, 2020
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NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo
on Wednesday
told Congress that Hong Kong is no
longer autonomous
from China,
paving the way for sanctions from
Washington that
would strip the
city of its economic and trade privileges
essential to
its status as a
global financial hub.
Beijing's decision to "unilaterally and arbitrarily
impose
national security legislation on Hong Kong" last
week is only the
"latest in a series of actions that fundamentally
undermine
Hong
Kong's autonomy and freedoms and
China's own promises
to the Hong Kong
people under the Sino-British
Joint Declaration,
a UN-filed international
treaty," Pompeo said in a
press statement.
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