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Go to Article Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam refused to comment when asked about a Chinese official’s statement saying that China is to have jurisdiction over certain court cases in the former British colony under Beijing’s national security law. Lam dodged the question at her daily press conference on June 16, when she was asked by a reporter to comment on remarks made yesterday by Deng Zhonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office—Beijing’s top agency for handling those territories’ policies. In response to the question, Lam said she couldn’t comment because she did not know the...
