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New Zealand halted its extradition treaty with Hong Kong on July 28. 'New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong's criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China,' said the country's Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters in a move that has infuriated Beijing … [Read more...] about Hong Kong government’s decision to delay the upcoming election ‘due to coronavirus’ may be unlawful, says the city’s bar association

Some businesses are also reassessing their presence in the territory. "There are already indications that some are voluntarily withdrawing from Hong Kong," Heribert Dieter, an expert at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), told DW. He pointed to the imminent relocation of the office of the Asian head of Deutsche Bank from Hong Kong to Singapore as an indication of how businesses could adapt to the new situation. … [Read more...] about China’s actions risk Hong Kong’s future as global financial center

The government's decision to delay the elections set off a political and legal controversy. Soon after the announcement, a group of 22 lawmakers issued a statement accusing the Hong Kong administration of using the outbreak as an excuse to postpone the vote. … [Read more...] about Hong Kong bar association says election delay may be ‘unlawful’

But as the deadline for the 99-year-lease approached in the 1980s, the communist government in China arguing that all of Hong Kong should be returned to Chinese rule. … [Read more...] about Hong Kong protests: Why hundreds stormed government building in huge demo

Opponents of the extradition bill, which would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party, fear it is a threat to Hong Kong's much-cherished rule of law and are demanding it be scrapped and Lam step down. … [Read more...] about Police spray tear gas at Hong Kong protesters who stormed government building