HONG KONG, Aug 7 — The US consulate in Hong Kong today said it was “ludicrous” to suggest its diplomats meeting with pro-democracy politicians could breach the city’s new national security law, a charge levelled in a recent Chinese state media report. Earlier this week, China’s...
Police officers raise a banner warning demonstrators at Statue Square during a protest on the first anniversary of a mass protest against the now-withdrawn extradition bill, in Hong Kong’s Central district, China June 9, 2020. — Reuters pic
Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong at the end of June targeting subversion, secession, terrorism and colluding with foreign forces. The security law was a direct response by Beijing to months of huge and often violent pro-democracy protests that erupted in Hong Kong last year.
It has sent a political chill through Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city supposedly guaranteed certain freedoms not seen on the Chinese mainland as well as autonomy for 50 years after the city’s 1997 handover from Britain.
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