Tks
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Right now, the law is very vague even in Chinese, many different interpretations among officials over time, so God knows what it looks like in English.
And no, the law has no geographic limitations, on paper it applies to every corner on earth.
Effectively it changes the way public figures and analysts talk, overnight.
Some young political leaders have left HK right on 30 June.
Vague laws, are vague on purpose. Simply because codifying anything of this caliber with precision opens up loop holes or work-arounds. What a powerful centralized government hopes and makes sure happens is, any legal interpretations are quashed (basically any interpretation outside the desires of the central government). But you can only identify proper "traitors" of the nation by presenting laws that are very vague, vague enough to gauge each judge's political leanings.
These sorts of power plays are only possible within nations that truly hold absolute power domestically (and for cases of international law violations, countries that are virtually absolute in power on the world stage as well, which China is, as it is the lifeblood and bedrock of the entire planet basically).
Imagine the gall you must have as a leader giving literally every single democracy touting nation the middle finger telling them they can't do shit. Last time that happened was in '89 after they demonstrated to the entire planet that there is no problem having tanks run over students and their own citizens. I feel after that moment everyone on the world stage backed off with funding of democracy activism in the country for the most part, and world leaders also knew completely just who they were now in business with. Seems things are as they should be now currently though. Hypocrite democracy nations hiding behind economic excuses, allowing all this to go on. Pretty sad to think about all the boasting for instance we do here in the US, yet once China becomes a talking point in political discussion every politician goes pretty shush aside from the whine about human rights here and there for good measure sometimes.