The Hong Kong administration “vehemently” refuted a report by a US congressional advisory panel that suggested that the city was under “a new era of control” from Beijing with a rubber-stamp legislature and diminishing freedoms.
The city’s administration under chief executive John Lee in a statement on Wednesday said the report “again made slandering remarks and ill-intentioned political attacks”. It asked the US to stop “maliciously interfering” in the affairs of Hong Kong.
A report…