President Biden extends National Emergency order over Hong Kong for another year

US President Joe Biden extended the three-year ‘National Emergency’ declared over Hong Kong for another year, saying that action by China ‘to fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.’

In Hong Kong, a spokesman for the commissioner’s office of China’s foreign ministry ‘expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the White House’s extension of the so-called “national emergency with respect to Hong Kong”,’ the official China Daily said.

The National Emergency was imposed in July 2020 by the Trump administration, in the wake of Beijing’s imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong following months of anti-government protests.

The executive order revokes special privileges the US had granted Hong Kong, including special economic treatment and easier export controls on sensitive US technologies.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-07-12/pdf/2023-14973.pdf