64 Global News Post 1: The Implement of China’s New National Security Law in Hong Kong

Davis MC, Hui VT. China’s new national security law for hong kong will erode hong Kong’s autonomy. . Updated 2020.

This article introduces and briefly summarizes how the China’s National People’s Congress react and what this will mean to the Hong Kong’s autonomy. After the protests and chaos in Hong Kong, the Chinese government are publishing this new national security law to regulate and intended to regain control of the situation. From my perspective, this new decision of imposes the new national security policy far exceeded and ignore the Hong Kong’s Basic Law, but have more control on the China’s national security and more international assets regulations. Therefore, the implementation of this new law to a certain extent restricted foreign capital investment in Hong Kong and foreign enterprises in Hong Kong local business activities.

Just as the residents and Chinese central government worry about the protests in Hong Kong could eventually develop into riots like those happened in Xinjiang and Tibet a few years ago, with casualties and money lost, so the protestors in Hong Kong are also worried that Hong Kong will become just “another Chinese city” and lost its autonomy and freedom for foreign investments and business activities in the near future.

This article also mentions the reaction of the western countries’ to the implementation of the new national security law. However, the western democracy’s had not yet taken any actions to back their words, and seem unlikely to “catch Hong Kong when they fall” or preserve Hong Kong’s autonomy.