Why did Team Trump drop sanctions on the killers of Hong Kong’s freedom?

Ugh: The Trump administration last week quietly weakened one of Washington’s toughest tools for holding the oppressors of Hong Kong to account. These are men and women who carried out Beijing’s orders to crush the liberties that China had agreed to when it regained control of the island city in 1997; now Washington’s decided to let them escape consequences for those despicable actions. The Treasury Department called the decision a “technical modernization,” but it adds up to letting heightened sanctions against dozens of Hong Kong officials lapse, when they’d been renewed by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden ever since…