The response from Beijing was swift and stinging after the European Parliament passed a resolution in January calling for action on the “deterioration” of media independence in Hong Kong and repeated calls for sanctions on its top officials.
Condemning the resolution as “a piece of rubbish”, officials said Hong Kong had never had democracy as a British colony before it returned to China in 1997.
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