Beijing: China has said the lack of tough security laws in Hong Kong is a key reason for months of increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations and that the enactment of such legislation is an “urgent task”.
The call came in a lengthy statement issued late on Saturday by the head of the Chinese government department that oversees Hong Kong.
Efforts by Hong Kong’s government to introduce tough security laws in 2003 caused major protests before being shelved. Chinese President Xi Jinping last week expressed a “high degree of trust” in Hong Kong’s unpopular Chief Executive Carrie Lam, following speculation that Beijing was preparing to remove her.
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