When I first heard that Hong Kong was about to pass a new extradition bill, I didn't even bother to look it up because the Chinese had been operating as if they already had one. Now, I can appreciate the significance of it because of a brief published by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The briefing points out that is not just Hong Kong citizens who can be extradited the Chinese mainland, but anyone who lives there. So bankers, and financial institutions will find themselves being hauled off to a Chinese court for doing something the Chinese don't like.
Any company currently doing business in China should read this brief. It is only a beginning of the use of law to meet their political objectives. They do it internally but they are reaching out to other lands they control and applying the same laws to anyone who disagrees with them. It is one thing to be censored, like my blog is in China, but it is entirely something else to do what they did with the booksellers in Hong Kong - Hauling them off to be intimidated in holding cells and threatening their futures if they didn't stop selling books that were banned on the mainland.
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