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The new head of Hong Kong’s Law Society has described the national security law Beijing imposed on the city as “mild when compared to Western countries”, and said his confidence in the rule of law and independent judiciary remained intact. At an informal gathering with media on Monday, Chan Chak-ming said the city’s lawyers had a responsibility to tell the international community that it was business as usual in Hong Kong, despite the social unrest and perceived tightening of Beijing’s control over the past two years. Acknowledging that the rule of law had “faced challenges in the past two years”,...
