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Beijing’s foreign ministry has accused the United States’ envoy to Hong Kong of “blatantly supporting anti-China troublemakers” and making threats a day after he said its drastic overhaul of the city’s electoral system would neither produce “meaningful democratic results” nor credibly represent the will of the people. Without naming US Consul General Hanscom Smith, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry’s Hong Kong office issued a statement on Friday slamming Washington’s envoy for publicly “smearing” Beijing’s imposition of the national security law last June and its sweeping revamp of the city’s political system this week. “He made much effort to...
