China has formally approved a plan to impose national security laws on Hong Kong, despite a US declaration that the move would signal that the city was no longer autonomous from Beijing.
Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, on Wednesday issued the Trump administration’s most serious response yet to Beijing’s plan to impose the laws.
China says the laws are intended to target “splittist, subversion of state power, terrorism or interference by foreign countries or outside influences” in Hong Kong. But the move has raised concerns about the city’s future as a global financial centre.
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