UK-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch (HKW) became the first foreign entity targeted under the new national security law China has imposed on Hong Kong. In a recent letter sent to Benedict Rogers, the co-founder and chief executive of the British NGO, Hong Kong police accused the group of “seriously interfering” in local affairs and “jeopardizing [the] national security” of China. HKW disclosed the formal warning in a March 14 statement. “This makes Hong Kong Watch one of the first foreign organizations to be targeted under the draconian law,” the statement reads, referencing the contentious national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in mid-2020. The new law grants Beijing sweeping powers to punish what authorities broadly define as subversion, secession, collusion with foreign forces, and terrorism, with up to life in jail. It also empowers the police to request Internet service providers delete information on national security …