Carrie Lam: 'China patriots' now in charge of Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Hong Kong chief administrator Carrie Lam has said that 'Chinese patriots' are now in charge of the city following the appointment of its new leader, who ran unopposed in an election process controlled by Beijing.

A carefully-vetted election committee voted overwhelmingly to approve John Lee, a hard-line security chief who oversaw a crackdown of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2019.

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