Congress should turn President Donald Trump’s 2020 executive order suspending Hong Kong’s special trade status into law, an advisory panel said, citing China’s “complete political control” over the city and its regulatory environment.
The recommendation appears in the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s annual report, released on Nov. 18. The commission—an independent body created by Congress in 2000—advises lawmakers on the national security implications of economic and trade relations between the world’s two largest economies.
The section devoted to Hong Kong spans 12 pages of the commission’s more than 700-page report. It describes how, in the five years since the Beijing-imposed National Security Law took effect, Hong Kong has increasingly come to resemble any other mainland Chinese city in both political and economic systems….