Hong Kong national security law: why has the United States imposed sanctions on top officials serving the city and how hard will the penalties bite?

The Donald Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on 11 city and mainland Chinese officials, including Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, as part of a series of measures designed to punish Beijing for the national security law it imposed on the city this summer.Among those targeted were senior city ministers, retired police commissioner Stephen Lo Wai-chung and his successor, Chris Tang Ping-keung, as well as mainland officials, among them Beijing’s top envoy to Hong Kong…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3096611/hong-kong-national-security-law-why-has-united-states