Article 23: US State Department 'alarmed' by 'sweeping and vaguely defined provisions'
The passage of Hong Kong’s new, local security law has the potential to "accelerate the closing of Hong Kong’s once open society," US State Department Vedant Patel has said. In full: https://buff.ly/4a1doLZ
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