Published: 14:57, August 15, 2021 | Updated: 18:12, August 15, 2021
Chan: HK has 'responsibility' to implement anti-sanctions law
By Agencies

Paul Chan, Hong Kong's financial secretary, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, June 5, 2020. (LAM YIK / BLOOMBERG)

Hong Kong has a “constitutional responsibility” to implement the anti-sanctions law  to ensure the city’s long-term and steady development, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po wrote in his blog on Sunday.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor earlier said that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government supported introducing the anti-sanctions law in the HKSAR by adding it to an annex of the city's Basic Law.

The anti-sanctions law is designed to provide more diverse counter-measures in the “policy toolbox,” Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said

The US has interfered with Hong Kong affairs, including imposing “unjustified” sanctions on officials and ending a special tariff treatment, and Washington’s acts of bullying are intensifying, Chan wrote.

The anti-sanctions law is designed to provide more diverse counter-measures in the “policy toolbox,” according to Chan. Increasing options will ensure that there is enough “counter-attack” force to respond, he added.

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The way in which this law will be implemented in Hong Kong remains to be decided by the Standing Committee, Chan also said.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the anti-foreign sanctions law on June 10 after the US and some of its allies in recent years imposed a number of sanctions on Chinese individuals and organizations over alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Tibet autonomous region and the HKSAR.

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