P - rospects & P erspectives - Ramifications of the Hong Kong

The list of potential crimes is long and wide-ranging: any person in Hong Kong who owns a smartphone that contains material condemning the CCP or the HKSAR government, or comes back from Taiwan or other countries after having served in the military, or condemns the CCP or the HKSAR government in any open or subtle manner, whether publicly or privately, being viewed as creating hatred against the r. [...] The Chief Executive of the HKSAR government is also authorized to issue any administrative directives or supplementary rules on top of the NSL and the SNSO. [...] The SNSO further entails full extraterritorial criminality of the offenses regarding national secret and espionage committed by any person anywhere in the world, as well as partial extraterritorial criminality of substantially all SNSO offenses committed by any Hong Kong residents anywhere in the world or by any foreign entity anywhere in the world having any place of business in Hong Kong. [...] and China, Hong Kong could see a new wave of travel and border restrictions, internet bans, imposition of the PRC’s digital social credit system, prohibitions on the free exchange of HKD to USD, the final cancellation of the HKD, and so on. [...] (Sang Pu is political commentator, lawyer, and president of the Taiwan Hong Kong Association.) Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy or the position of the Prospect Foundation.