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China to Deepen Hong Kong Security Focus as Jimmy Lai Case Stirs Outcry
China's State Council highlights Beijing's central role and ongoing national security efforts in Hong Kong following 2019 protests and recent high-profile convictions.
- China's State Council on Tuesday released a five-chapter White Paper saying Beijing has the `fundamental responsibility` for Hong Kong's national security.
- Following yesterday, a Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, and the White Paper was published by China's State Council.
- The White Paper states that Hong Kong's efforts to safeguard national security have never stopped, citing the 2019 protests as the most severe challenge to national security practice in Hong Kong.
- Calling for legal and institutional strengthening, it stated Hong Kong's legal system must safeguard national security, highlighting the White Paper's stability rhetoric of `high-standard security` and being `steady as a rock`.
- Lai's case marked the heaviest sentence so far under the China-imposed national security law, described as a `landmark` foreign collusion case.
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