BEIJING (AP): The body that handles most lawmaking for China’s top legislative body closed its latest meeting Saturday (June 16) with no word on whether it had passed a highly controversial national security law for Hong Kong.
The bill - which has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous territory’s legal and political institutions - was raised for discussion at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress but there was no further word on its fate, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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