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Mike Lee: “If the U.S. and other governments around the world don't act immediately to pressure Beijing and Hong Kong to withdraw…”

On the recordMay 14, 2019
If the U.S. and other governments around the world don't act immediately to pressure Beijing and Hong Kong to withdraw the changes, the Hong Kong government will ram through by early July an extradition law that will legalize kidnapping and threaten to destroy Hong Kong's free society.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Martin Lee warns about the dangers of a proposed extradition law in Hong Kong.

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