China News 1 July 2020
International
Hong Kong
Dozens of people arrested in Hong Kong as Beijing’s security law takes effect. Mere hours after President Xi Jinping signed the controversial Hong Kong national security law, Hong Kong police made its first arrests, including a man arrested for holding a Hong Kong independence flag. The new law bans acts of “secession, subversion, organisation and perpetration of terrorist activities, and collusion with a foreign country” and carries sentences of up to life in prison. Hong Kong Police Force on Twitter, BBC, CNN, SCMP, Reuters, FT, Bloomberg, Asia Times, 1 July
More on Hong Kong:
The full English translation of the Law. Xinhua, 1 July
China draws condemnation for new Hong Kong security law. FT, 1 July
Taiwan opens Hong Kong migration office in rebuke to Beijing. Reuters, 1 July
Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China. BBC News, New York Times, 30 June
Calls for UN probe of China forced birth control on Uighurs. AP, 1 July
Australia defense spending hike aims at China. Asia Times, 1 July
Economy/Tech
Huawei and ZTE classified as security threat to US. FT, 1 July
Chinese mobile app groups face limbo during India investigation. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) on Monday blacklisted 59 Chinese mobile phone apps. India is due to meet representatives from the companies to answer accusations they are “surreptitiously stealing data”. FT, 30 June
Australia Spending Nearly $1 Billion on Cyberdefense as China Tensions Rise. New York Times, 30 June
Longer reads & opinion
Charles Parton OBE: Towards a UK strategy and policies for relations with China. The Policy Institute, King’s College London, June
How Should Democracies Respond to China’s New National Security Law for Hong Kong? ChinaFile, 30 June
Lex: India/Chinese apps: national insecurity. FT, 30 June
After 156 years its Hong Kong, China. Washington Post, 30 June
Events
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Dominic Raab to give a Statement to Parliament on the UK’s response to the Hong Kong national security legislation. Watch live from 12.30 here.