House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke out against China’s new national security law for Hong Kong on Wednesday, but did not commit to take up a Senate-passed sanctions bill to penalize the nation for violating the territory’s autonomy
for Hong Kong over concerns its government is coming more under the control of Beijing. But the administration has balked at more severe measures that could spook financial markets and threaten the president’s reelection, like pulling out of the recently signed U.S. trade deal with China or imposing more tariffs on Chinese goods.
Now, experts say China’s new national security law will reach far beyond the extradition proposal, setting up parallel police and legal systems for the city that are loyal to Beijing and not accountable to local authorities. The Chinese government will also be able to take “complete jurisdiction” of legal cases and remove them from the Hong Kong legal system at the request of Communist Party officials, said Carole Petersen, professor of law at University of Hawaii.
“At that point Hong Kong’s legal system simply does not apply,” she told the House committee. “The mainland Chinese criminal procedure will take over and the person will be prosecuted and tried under mainland law, presumably in the mainland.”
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