Top US diplomat: Use of security law in Hong Kong a ‘tragedy’

America’s top diplomat in Hong Kong on Monday said the use of a new national security law widely seen as eroding the autonomy of the city was a “tragedy.””Using the national security law to erode fundamental freedoms and to create an atmosphere of coercion and self-censorship is a tragedy for Hong Kong,” Hanscom Smith, U.S. consul general to Hong Kong and Macau, told reporters, according to The Associated Press. “Hong Kong has been successful…