China's ruling Communist Party has put forward a security law that would tighten control over Hong Kong.
The move by China's ruling Communist Party to set in train a national security law for Hong Kong signals a crackdown on the city's freedoms and could spell the end to the autonomy it has had since the British handover of 1997, activists and analysts have said.that bans"treason, sedition, secession and subversion" in Hong Kong will be presented at China's National Party Congress , which has just started, and largely rubber stamps the leadership's wishes.
"Therefore, Britain has a legal, as well as a moral, and ethical entitlement to express its views and do so most strongly. In 2003, an attempt to pass national security legislation into the Basic Law, which is Hong Kong's mini-constitution, failed, and hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest. Last year there were further mass protests sparked by a bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
Bruce Liu, a senior journalism lecturer from Hong Kong Baptist University, said the speed of the latest move by China's Communist Party had taken him by surprise and signified its intention to"weaponize" the"one country, two systems" framework. "In this new paradigm, the value of Hong Kong is not as a completely separate and stand alone SAR but as a key part of the Greater Bay Area which can play a role that even Shenzhen cannot play," he toldFormer U.K, foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, is pictured in 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland.Xi signaled his intent to take a hard line on Hong Kong protesters in 2020 when he appointed Luo Huining as head of the Chinese government's liaison office there.
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