A bipartisan group of senators on Jan. 15 introduced a bill that would close Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices in the United States on the basis of the Chinese regime’s human rights abuses and its current control of Hong Kong.
There are three such offices in the United States, based in San Francisco, New York, and Washington. The offices referred an inquiry by The Epoch Times to the Hong Kong government, which did not respond by time of publication.
The offices in 1997 were granted special privileges, exemptions, and immunities typically given only to official consular offices on the basis that Hong Kong was to operate autonomously from communist China. This autonomy is widely determined to have ended with Beijing’s expansion of Hong Kong’s National Security Law, which is now used to criminalize dissent against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)….
Senators Want to Close Hong Kong Offices in US That Act as CCP Proxies
