China’s national security law for Hong Kong, enacted suddenly before midnight on June 30, is already chilling the media environment there and putting Hong Kong’s customary high degree of autonomy under threat, says Brookings Visiting Fellow Jamie Horsley. However, Horsley cautions the U.S. against too broadly stripping away Hong Kong’s special privileges in response lest it accelerate China’s erosion of the region’s autonomy.
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Commentary
PodcastHow is China’s new national security law affecting Hong Kong?
Jamie P. Horsley and
Jamie P. Horsley
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
- Yale Law School,
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center
Adrianna Pita
Adrianna Pita
Office of Communications
July 20, 2020