"Hong Kong's Ongoing Transformation: Push for New National Security Laws"

Hong Kong officials announced plans to enact a long-shelved security law aimed at curbing foreign influence and expanding the definition of offenses like stealing state secrets and treason, echoing mainland Chinese treatments of those offenses. The move is expected to further silence dissent in the once-freewheeling Chinese territory, with the proposed law laying out five major areas of offenses and the city's leader citing threats posed by foreign intelligence organizations. Critics fear the law will ensure a further decimation of human rights in Hong Kong.