KMT speaks out against security legislation for HKBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterPassage of the Hong Kong national security legislation by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee is regrettable, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said in a statement yesterday. Passage of the legislation would inevitably add greater uncertainty to Hong Kong’s future, it added. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang speaks during a meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee yesterday in Taipei. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei TimesThe “characteristics of Hong Kong’s development” and its residents’ “space for autonomy” should not be sacrificed just for political reasons, it said. Hong Kong’s legislative and judicial bodies should “firmly defend Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy, [and] uphold the tradition of freedom,” it said.

Source: Taipei Times July 01, 2020 15:56 UTC