{"id":25368,"date":"2020-05-27T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25368"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T22:36:59","slug":"prc-national-peoples-congress-proposal-on-hong-kong-national-security-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25368","title":{"rendered":"PRC National People\u2019s Congress Proposal on Hong Kong National Security Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"module featured-content page-header \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"featured-content__copy\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p class=\"article-meta doctype-meta\">PRESS STATEMENT<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__author-bureau\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/michael-r-pompeo\/\">MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__publish-date\">MAY 27, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Last week, the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) National People\u2019s Congress announced its intention to unilaterally and arbitrarily impose national security legislation on Hong Kong. Beijing\u2019s disastrous decision is only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy and freedoms and China\u2019s own promises to the Hong Kong people under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-filed international treaty.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is required by the Hong Kong Policy Act to assess the autonomy of the territory from China. After careful study of developments over the reporting period, I certified to Congress today that Hong Kong does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the same manner as U.S. laws were applied to Hong Kong before July 1997. No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong and its dynamic, enterprising, and free people have flourished for decades as a bastion of liberty, and this decision gives me no pleasure. But sound policy making requires a recognition of reality. While the United States once hoped that free and prosperous Hong Kong would provide a model for authoritarian China, it is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself.<\/p>\n<p>The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong as they struggle against the CCP\u2019s increasing denial of the autonomy that they were promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS STATEMENT MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}