P.R. Venkat is a Real Time Editor overseeing coverage of Asian equities and money markets for Dow Jones out of Singapore. Follow him on Twitter at @byvenkat. He can be reached at [email protected].

Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate.

HONG KONG (AP) — China will sanction United States officials, lawmakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations who it says have “performed poorly” on Hong Kong issues, the foreign ...