Hong Kong security chief warns UK on ‘double standards’ over new security bill
- Secretary for Security Chris Tang says government will refer to UK’s proposed law, which was introduced to Parliament on May 11, when drafting Article 23 legislation
- In blog post, Tang appeals to ‘foreign politicians’ to look at city’s proposed bill objectively and rationally
Hong Kong will refer to the UK’s new national security bill in drafting its own relevant law, security chief Chris Tang Ping-keung has said, while warning the British government against “double standards” and interference in its criticism of the city’s move to introduce such legislation.
The secretary for security also said on his official blog on Wednesday that when the long-shelved legislation required under Article 23 of the city’s mini-constitution was unveiled he expected “foreign politicians” to look at it objectively and rationally.
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“The United States and other Western countries have been deliberately slandering and making false accusations regarding [Hong Kong’s] legislation and implementation of the national security law, and they have ‘demonised’ Article 23 of the Basic Law,” Tang wrote in Chinese.
“But in fact they have also formulated relevant national security legislation and they make amendments to it from time to time.”