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China moves to quell Hong Kong protests with security law

by Associated Press
| May 28, 2020 6:27 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — China officially ratified a plan Thursday to write a national security law for Hong Kong that exerts Beijing's broader, new control over the semi-autonomous territory in a bid to prevent a return of the months of often-violent protests last year.

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