Nine chapters released in consultation paper for residents to offer their views, with activities such as treason, insurrection and theft of state secrets targeted.
Government’s consultation paper focuses on five targeted activities, five new crimes and 14 changes to existing laws, but does not spell out new penalties nor specify scope of extraterritorial application of law.
The term first appeared locally in April 2021 in a speech by Luo Huining, then director of Beijing’s liaison office, to mark Hong Kong’s first National Security Education Day.