Responding to the promulgation of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on March 19, 2024.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 1274 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1274 Responding to the promulgation of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on March 19, 2024. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 3, 2024 Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Carson, and Ms. Norton) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Responding to the promulgation of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on March 19, 2024. Whereas the People's Republic of China (PRC) agreed in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 that the PRC would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, with the condition that the territory's capitalist system and way of life would remain unchang…