June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong, which has altered the sociopolitical landscape of the city by undermining its ...

Plans to enact the bill in 2003 were shelved after mass protests. Hong Kong's legislature has unanimously passed a strict security law, 11 days after it was tabled in an unusually fast turnaround.

The ‘one country, two systems’ framework, enshrined in the Basic Law and staunchly supported by the central government, has ...

The claim from China is that Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law is consistent with national-security legislation in other countries (“Beijing Responds on Hong Kong: Don’t Worry,” Letters, March 28).

Twenty-five years ago, foreign investors and the international business community had hopes that Hong Kong’s handover from the British government to China would keep this international financial hub ...