Hong Kong to Craft its Own National Security Law

FILE - Riot police detain a protester during a demonstration against Beijing's national security legislation in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on May 24, 2020. Hong Kong began work on a local National Security Law on Jan. 30, 2024.

Four years after China imposed a strict national security law on Hong Kong, the territory’s leader says the time has come for the city to pass its own version.