Beijing is set to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong following last year's often violent anti-China unrest that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since returning to Chinese rule in 1997.
HONG KONG - Beijing is set to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong following last year’s often violent anti-China unrest that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since returning to Chinese rule in 1997.
Last year’s large and sometimes violent anti-government protests have sharpened that frustration, with China determined to thwart what it calls threats of terrorism, independence, subversion of state power, and interference by foreign forces.China’s annual session of parliament will deliberate on the plan, announced on Thursday, before it is grafted into Hong Kong’s mini-constitution without any local legislative scrutiny, as has been past practice.
Another issue is whether the standing committee of the National People’s Congress has extra powers to ultimately interpret Hong Kong court rulings on national security. Those freedoms are protected by the Basic Law, which guides the relationship between Hong Kong and Beijing. However the Basic Law also gives Beijing the power to annex national laws into the document - which the local government must then legislate for or effectively impose by executive fiat.
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