China on Feb 10 released a policy White Paper on Hong Kong’s practice of safeguarding national security to ensure stability in a volatile world, emphasising Beijing has “fundamental responsibility” for national security affairs in the city. This White Paper was released by China’s State Council, or Cabinet, a day after a Hong Kong court sentenced leading China critic and former media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years imprisonment in a landmark foreign collusion case under the city’s national security law. Lai’s sentence, the heaviest so far under a China-imposed national security law, drew international criticism from the US, Britain, Taiwan, European Union, Japan and rights groups.

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