Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned both Beijing and the Hong Kong government after a controversial electoral reform bill was passed by the Chinese-ruled city’s legislature on May 27. The bill, passed by a margin of 40 to 2, was passed in a rather empty chamber of the 70-seat Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo)—with only 43 legislators in attendance to cast a vote. Beijing disqualified some opposition pro-democracy lawmakers last year and many others resigned in protest. Many of the electoral changes were announced in March, when the standing committee of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People Congress, passed by a unanimous vote a plan to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system. Before the electoral reform, 35 LegCo seats were directly elected by Hong Kong voters. Now, that number has been slashed to 20. The 70-seat LegCo is now expanded to 90 seats, but 40 of them are to be selected …