IMPLICATIONS: The council is concerned the proposed legislation could affect the personal freedom of Taiwanese, such as NGO workers or businesspeople

Taipei Times
Date: May 26, 2020
By: Chen Yu-fu and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Chinese government’s proposed national security law for Hong Kong could jeopardize the right to personal freedom of Taiwanese in the region, National Security Council (NSC) Deputy Secretary-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) said yesterday.

China’s National People’s Congress on Friday last week unveiled a proposal to enact a Hong Kong security law.

The proposed “enforcement mechanisms,” which are expected to ban treason, subversion and sedition, are being introduced in response to last year’s pro-democracy protests in the territory.

If Beijing passes the controversial law, it would have broken its promise to respect the territory’s autonomy under its “one country, two systems” model, Tsai said in response to a question from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wu Yu-chin (吳玉琴) at a meeting of the legislature’s Finance Committee in Taipei.    [FULL  STORY]