Why Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong does not spell the end of ‘one country, two systems’

On May 21, at its annual meeting in Beijing, the National People’s Congress dropped a bombshell by announcing that it would authorise its standing committee to draft legislation, at the central level, “to establish and improve the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to safeguard national security”.The idea that authorities in Beijing would sidestep Hong Kong to promulgate a new national security law for Hong Kong – a version which could be…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3086619/why-beijings-national-security-law-hong-kong-does-not-spell-end-one