The Hong Kong government on Saturday called the latest sanctions imposed by the United States against six officials “insane, shameless and despicable”.The government added that it fully supported Beijing in adopting appropriate countermeasures in response to the sanctions, which included, among others, Tam Yiu-chung, the city’s sole delegate to China’s top legislative body. The sanctions were imposed by the US over the mass arrests of opposition activists earlier this month by Hong Kong police…

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