The U.S. Department of the State published the 2022 Country Report on Human Right Practices, including a  section on China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet, on March 20.
The report pinpointed that in 2022, the Chinese Communist Party continued to violate the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Hong Kong, dismantling political freedoms and autonomy in violation of these commitments.
The report referred to the Hong Kong National Security Law multiple times, stating that it could no longer determine if Hong Kong’s civilian authorities could maintain effective, autonomous control over the city’s security services.
The report also underlined that the regime changed Hong Kong’s electoral system to block political opposition Beijing disapproved of from participating in the election….