China’s ceremonial parliament will consider legislation that would give Beijing greater powers to crack down on opposition in Hong Kong.
Plans by Beijing to impose new national security legislation in Hong Kong are likely to incite protesters at a time when China is attempting to tighten its grip and stem dissent from again exploding in the former British colony.
Zhang said the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, would exercise constitutional power to “establish and improve” a legal framework for enforcing national security in Hong Kong.The move could bypass Hong Kong’s own legislature by altering a part of the region’s quasi-constitution without going through usual lawmaking process.
Zhang said China’s intentions in Hong Kong were “highly necessary” in light of “new circumstances,” alluding to more than six months of anti-government protests that rocked the special administrative region last year. Chinese President Xi Jinping saw the uprising as a threat against the the Communist Party.
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