(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Hong Kong National Security Law

Topic: Hong Kong National Security Law

Guest:

Ashok Sajjanhar, (Former Ambassador)
Pramit Pal Chaudhari, (Foreign Affairs Editor, HT)
Srikanth Kondapalli, (Professor, Chinese Studies, JNU)

Topic Description:

Chinese authorities announced on Thursday plans to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature to enact a national security law that pro-democracy campaigners say is aimed at cracking down on dissent in the city. A motion to enable the drafting of the law—which targets secession, sedition, terrorism and foreign interference in Hong Kong—was brought before the National People’s Congress, China’s lawmaking body, at its annual meeting in Beijing on Friday. The introduction of the legislation has sparked fear and outrage from pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong, who say that Beijing has fallen back on promises it made when it took back the former British colony in 1997.