Patrick Keane, who sits on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, faced protests outside his lecture in NSW, concerned at his role in legitimising Beijing’s rule.
The bill requires the U.S. president to ’remove the extension of certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices.’
American investors, researchers, and journalists could be targeted for their regular operations under the city’s new national security ordinance Article 23.
Judges rejected the defendants’ argument that British-style ‘proportionality’ and the absence of violence at the 2019 rally should be taken into account.