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    Fixing Hong Kong’s Security Bug

    Jun 18, 2020 4 minutes
    By Lan Xinzhen
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    Thirty years after the promulgation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and 23 years after Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, one article in the Basic Law has yet to be implemented.

    Article 23 of this constitutional document stipulates that Hong Kong shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central Government, or theft of state secrets.

    While the local society of Hong Kong supports making laws to carry out Article 23, the opposition has obstructed efforts to do so till today. As

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