Reporter : Yang Zheng
Editor : Yuan Mingqing
Publisher : Sound Of Hope
Direct translation
The CCP’s Hong Kong version of the National Security Law was officially signed on 30 June. Yesterday evening, the official media of the Communist Party of China announced the full text of the bill. Article 38 of it can be said to shock the world, because the CCP adopted this article to bring the world into its jurisdiction, causing anger and ridicule from all walks of life. Some commentators pointed out that those enacting the law were either legally blind or deliberately expressing "one respect".
Article 38 of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law states that "People who do not have the permanent resident status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, shall apply this Law to the crimes committed by this Law against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region."
This means that the scope of the provisions is unlimited. Anyone who discusses Hong Kong politicians, if the content involves crimes of separatism, subversion of state power, crimes of terrorist activities, crimes of collusion with foreign countries or foreign forces endangering national security, etc. Hong Kong or any corner of the world may breach the law.
Zhang Daming, a Hong Kong law expert and chief lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Hong Kong, told Voice of Germany that the content of the law clearly shows that the Chinese (CCP) government wants to control everything, because they can prevent political instability by doing so. Basically, the effectiveness of the National Security Law has been expanded to the whole world, and we can also understand this as the Chinese (CCP) government has extended the scope of its national security to the whole world.
Luke de Pulford, the founder of the charity and the Human Rights Commissioner of the House of Lords and the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, tweeted, "This law is absurd. Article 38 states that non-Hong Kong citizens or even non-Hong Kong people who violate this law , Is also considered a crime, I guess that's me."
The famous British human rights activist Benedict Rogers tweeted sarcastically, "I call for (imposed on the CCP) sanctions, (assigned in Hong Kong) United Nations special envoy, rescue boat rescue (Hong Kong people). I think I have violated Article 38? "
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, a writer and Axios China reporter, exclaimed, "God, I really didn't look away???? Beijing just gave itself extraterritorial powers to everyone on the planet?"
Senior commentator Tang Jingyuan pointed out, "The unprecedented provision of such unpredictable provisions only shows that the people who formulate the National Security Law of the National People's Congress are either a group of second-hand pseudo-experts or laypersons who are legally blind, or they are deliberately bullying themselves. He can’t understand it-the bill must be signed by him before it can be promulgated and implemented."
Some netizens sarcastically said, "Not only the whole world, the entire universe is within the scope of Hong Kong National Security Law!" Some netizens scolded: "Too ridiculous! A law set by oneself to manage the whole world! Is the United Nations blind?"
More netizens said, "I will not go to Hong Kong in my life" and "I will pay special attention to the place of transfer in the future."
Andrew Nathan, a professor of political science at Columbia University, also reminded that those who support democracy overseas in Hong Kong may need to be vigilant when traveling internationally to circumvent the extradition treaty with the Chinese Communist Party.
Xiao Ruoyuan, a well-known Hong Kong writer and famous TV screenwriter, said that the CCP will kill itself because of Article 38. "Now all foreign countries will warn their citizens because they are likely to have violated the law in foreign countries. 'The behaviour was arrested in Hong Kong. This must have a major impact on the status of Hong Kong's international financial centre."
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