Since the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law in 2020, the Hong Kong government’s expenses for “safeguarding national security” are unknown to the public, except that the government allocated HK$8 billion (US$1 billion). Recently, the government submitted “The Report on the Control and Management of the Special Fund to Meet the Expenditure for ‘Safeguarding National Security’ to the Legislative Council (LegCo),” but it contains only three pages without any details on the spending.
Chung Kim-wah, former Hong Kong Baptist University professor, criticized in an interview with The Epoch Times that all the departments and tasks established in the name of the National Security Law are entirely out of the supervision of the system of Hong Kong….