America’s mission to the United Nations revealed on Wednesday it had requested a Security Council meeting to discuss China’s unlawful takeover of “national security” in Hong Kong, but as China is one of the most powerful members on the council, it blocked the meeting.China is one of five permanent members of the council, also including the United States, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom. According to the U.S. mission, China single-handedly prevented discussion of the increasingly worrisome situation in Hong Kong where, as of Wednesday Chinese Communist Party authorities will be able to punish people present in the nominally autonomous region for any behavior they identify as threatening the national security of China. The “national security” law China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed on Thursday overrides the autonomy of the Hong Kong authorities to handle local criminal concerns. Its opponents note that it is a violation of “One Country, Two Systems,” the policy China vowed to keep to when Hong Kong accepted Chinese sovereignty over it in 1997. The U.S. mission to the U.N. called the law a “matter of urgent global concern that implicates international peace and security.” “As a result, the United States called today for a virtual… Read full this story
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