Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she gets around sanctions by collecting her salary in cash

Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam said she has been getting around sanctions that limit her ability to do banking by collecting her salary in cash. In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Lam told Chief News Editor Yonden Lhatoo that she only withdraws part of her salary and keeps it in a drawer at her residence in Government House. Lam and other Chinese and Hong Kong officials are the targets of US sanctions as a result of the national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in…