The State Department has downgraded its travel warning for Hong Kong, designating the city as “Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution.” Some advocates for democracy in Hong Kong criticized the move, which comes against the backdrop of the Biden administration’s ongoing drive to seek a more cooperative relationship with Beijing.
The quietly implemented move came the day before the weekend leading into July 4, and it marks an easing of the U.S. warning against travel to Hong Kong, whose political freedoms and autonomy were eliminated by the Chinese mainland through the 2020 national-security law.
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