Google’s YouTube blocked the campaign account of Hong Kong’s only leadership candidate, citing U.S. sanctions, in a move that ratchets up tensions between big tech companies and the city’s government amid a national-security crackdown on political opposition. John Lee, a former policeman and government security chief, is poised to become Hong Kong’s next top official in a small-circle election to be held May 8 by a committee of around 1,500 mostly Beijing loyalists and closely orchestrated by China’s central government.
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