West dreads losing spying toehold in Hong Kong, says councillor

Police walk past a plaque outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after its official inauguration in Hong Kong on July 8, 2020. - AFP

HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): Hong Kong Executive Councillor Wong Kwok-kin said fear of an end to their once-uncontrolled spying and intelligence activities in Hong Kong makes Western countries fret over the National Security Law.

Wong, in a one-on-one interview with China Daily, said that’s why the Western countries, led by the US, come up with nonsense excuses to oppose the law, accusing the legislation of breaching the “one country, two systems” principle and the Sino-British Joint Declaration.