Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was interviewed by local media and asked if she had been inconvenienced by the U.S. government’s sanctions, according to a report in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao on November 27. Mrs. Lam said that because of the sanctions, her bank account was suspended and the government paid her salary in cash.
Mrs. Lam said that without a bank to provide her with services, she uses cash for everything she buys every day and keeps a lot of cash at home. And because she doesn’t have a bank account, the government also switched to paying her salary in cash. However, Mrs. Lam said that she was sanctioned for “safeguarding national security.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on August 7, 2012, sanctions against Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Chief Executive’s Office Director and Secretary General of the National Security Council Chen Guoji, Secretary for Justice Cheng Yehua, Secretary for Security Lee Ka-chiu, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Tsang Kwok-wai, Commissioner of Police Tang Bing-keung, former Commissioner of Police Lo Wai-chung, Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Liaison Office) Luo Huining, Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Xia Baolong, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Zhang Xiaoming, Director of the National Security Agency Zheng Yan-hsiung and other 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials who undermined Hong Kong’s autonomy.
The U.S. President Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act on July 14 this year, which abolished the special treatment of Hong Kong by the United States. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Congress also unanimously passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, authorizing U.S. government departments to financial and other sanctions, to punish erosion, damage to Hong Kong’s autonomy of China and Hong Kong officials and entities.
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