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Britain's foreign secretary has said China can still "step back from the brink" to allow Hong Kong its own autonomy as he called for an independent inquiry into the city's protests. Dominic Raab expressed his "deep concern" for the ongoing unrest and China 's attempt to enforce its national security law on the former British colony. In the Foreign Office's latest six-month report to parliament on Hong Kong , covering 1 July to 31 December last year, Mr Raab also called the detention and torture of British Consulate worker Simon Cheng in China last year "brutal and disgraceful". Mr Raab...
