Hong Kong's Law and Order Chief Executive

Finally China responds to the Hong Kong quagmire – not by deploying the PLA but by enacting the National Security Act. It was approved on Tuesday by its Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. 

This piece of legislation criminalises any act of secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with external forces that endangers national security. 

For those who fiercely oppose it can put the blame on the US for interfering in domestic politics and manipulating a segment of the population to launch a “revolution” just so to undermine China. 

And those foreign governments who have raised vociferous objections are nothing but hypocrites because they can have their own national security legislation – but not China. 

The new law comes into force on July 01, 2020 and it coincides with the 23rd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China. It’s a day to celebrate its rightful return to the Chinese motherland after a century-and-a-half of British colonial rule that was viscerally humiliating.