The head of the US diplomacy has threatened Beijing with further reprisals, deploring a "sad day" for Hong Kong after the adoption by China of a new national security law. "Today is a sad day for Hong Kong, and for all freedom lovers in China," the secretary of state said in a statement. "The United States will not sit idly by while China engulfs Hong Kong in its authoritarian mouth ," he thundered.
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