Hong Kong Vows to Keep Up Security Push on Tense Anniversary
- Lam says more changes coming to financial center this year
- Thousands of police deployed to stop annual handover rallies
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Hong Kong’s leader pledged to press ahead with an unprecedented national security crackdown, as the Asian financial center marked a series of fraught anniversaries symbolizing Beijing’s tightening grip over local affairs.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in a Facebook post Wednesday vowed further action in the months ahead to amend laws, enforce loyalty oaths, police community organizations and promote patriotic education. She credited the national security law imposed by China a year ago Wednesday with getting “rid of the pervasive violence and social unrest that created anxiety” in the former British colony.