CHINA DAILY
CHINA DAILY: Electoral reforms, security law ensure Hong Kong stability
Order has been restored and it is again one of the safest places in the world
In initiating reforms to improve the electoral system in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), the National People’s Congress, China’s highest organ of state power, is acting in line with its constitutional power and responsibility to help maintain the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and safeguard China’s national sovereignty, security and development interests.
The need for the reforms had become glaringly obvious, the same being true for the national security law introduced in the SAR last summer, which has effectively put an end to the months-long violent campaign — the so-called black revolution — in which advocacy of Hong Kong independence was prominent...
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