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A sanctioned ex-cop is Hong Kong’s new chief executive
John Lee, a career police official turned security bureaucrat, became Hong Kong’s new chief executive on Sunday (May 8), after “winning” Hong Kong’s most one-sided election in decades. Lee earned 1,416 of 1,424 electoral college votes—but he was the only candidate permitted to stand by Beijing.Lee replaces Carrie Lam, who served her five-year term during a time of enormous tumult. She witnessed—and, with Lee’s help, violently put down—pro-democracy protests in 2019. Under Lam, a sweeping law, passed in 2020, made it a crime to criticize the Chinese Communist Party in any way. The law was enforced by a new national security apparatus that has charged citizens with secession and terrorism, shu

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