US must rebuke China's Hong Kong security law threat to American citizen

According to the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong police are seeking to detain and charge six people, including one American, for breaching the city’s new security law — specifically for the six’s supposed incitement of secession and collusion with foreign powers.

The national security law, in patent breach of China’s treaty commitments under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, is designed to purge Hong Kong of its democratic rule of law. Beijing believes that to entertain any freedom outside of the ruling Communist Party is to accept an existential threat to the party’s long-term power.