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What’s the new proposed security law in Hong Kong?


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Hong Kong’s government has said it wants to pass a new national security law. It comes four years after China imposed sweeping legislation in the wake of massive pro-democracy protests.

The proposed law would lay out five major areas of offenses: treason, insurrection, theft of state secrets, sabotage and external interference.

The proposal, known as Article 23 legislation, has long been a point of conflict in Hong Kong.

Martin Yip, a BBC journalist based in Hong Kong, walks us through the significance of this new law, how it relates to the umbrella protests in 2014 and 2019, and if more mass protests are expected.

Plus, Nicole Kidman’s new Amazon Prime series ‘Expats’ - a show about the life of foreigners in Hong Kong - has aired everywhere except in the territory itself. The BBC’s Fan Wang explains.

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