CCP applies Hong Kong security law to Planet Earth

From your friendly neighbourhood tyrannical regime:

Oh my god am I reading this right???

Article 38: The law applies to persons who do NOT have permanent resident status in HK and commit crimes under this law OUTSIDE Hong Kong.

Did Beijing just grant itself sweeping extraterritoriality to…everyone on the planet?

— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) June 30, 2020

I’m going to be on the phone soon with some lawyers who can help explain this to me, but in the meantime, here’s what I think this could mean.

1) This is likely targeted at former HK residents who now have foreign citizenship. They want to shut down organizing in HK diaspora.

— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) June 30, 2020

No more Drew Pavlou’s for you.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.