Hong Kong – Chinese officials have described Hong Kong’s new national security law as “tailor-made” for the former British colony, but lawyers in the city say the statute may be open to abuse and difficult to apply.
The 35-page legislation drafted behind closed doors in Beijing represents an uneasy marriage between China’s “socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics” and the common law preserved in Hong Kong after the British left in 1997.
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