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“We tried our best, but we just can't see any more room for us to stand anymore," said HKCTU Chairman Joe Wong, middle, on Sunday. (Photo by Kenji Kawase)

KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy labor group is set to join a growing list of civic groups succumbing to pressure from a crackdown on dissent under the national security law imposed on the city by Beijing last year.

"We tried our best, but we just can't see any more room for us to stand anymore," Joe Wong Nai-yuen, chairman of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, told reporters on Sunday.

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