Chinese authorities in Hong Kong on Thursday hit back at comments from the United States and Britain on a proposed new national security law they said would curtail freedoms there.
Massive pro-democracy protests rocked Hong Kong in 2019, bringing hundreds of thousands of people to the streets to call for greater freedoms.
In response, Beijing imposed a national security law to punish four major crimes — secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces — with sentences ranging up to life in prison.
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