In the year 1997 Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Peoples Republic F China on agreement that China would control the city partially but the city would be autonomous to mainland China in a way that it could frame it own laws and elect it own leaders.
This has been widely termed as one country two systems, the agreement would last for 50 years.
Chinas law making body the National People’s Congress that seats only once in a year voted today on Thursday in favour of the proposal to empower its standing committee to draft the legislation.
The Chinese parliament not excluding the premier Li and the president chairman Xi Jing Ping overwhelmingly voted with 2,878 to 1 votes in favor of the law with six abstaining from voting.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) government through the cities CEO Carrie Lam has endorsed the law after signing a petition along with more than 100,000 signatures to support the legislation on Thursday 28th of May.
She added that the legislation is intended to prevent curb and sanction extremely small minority who threaten national security, to safeguard prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and maintain the one country two systems.
The Island government insists that the legislation shall not threaten the city’s autonomy.
Secretary of state the ailing USA from Covid 19 has already indicated that this law has already scrapped autonomy off Hong Kong
China on its official news media China Global Television Network noted that the legislation was intended to deter foreign interference in matters of Hong Kong, deter terrorism, and secessionist agendas.
The legislators were noted making a thunderous applause when the results of the vote where displayed on the screen as they sat in the great hall of the people.
Last year Hong Kong saw its hugest and most violent street protests over what was called an extradition law.
The law was to be tailored in city however we are yet to confirm how the city will react to a legislation oversea in a more powerful and united China
China has always emphasized that there are ill intended external forces in Hong Kong that have an anti China sentiment that possibly harbor secessionist tendencies against China.
China has been criticized by so called pro democracy activists in the west for imposing its sheer mass all over the tiny city with a comparably smaller population and economy.
The county’s mode of governance, political system that is based on a one party system and its policy on technological tracking of citizens and control of the media has been criticized as a dictatorship and breach of fundamental human rights.
Hong Kong being a former territory of Britain has many British settlements and investments that the western governments would not want to see shift to China.
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