Australia Suspends Extradition Treaty With Hong Kong Over China’s National-Security Law
SYDNEY—Australia is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and supplying the city’s inhabitants a pathway to being completely in response to China’s final decision to impose new nationwide-safety legislation, a go possible to even more inflame tensions with Beijing.
Primary Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that the nationwide-safety law constituted “a essential transform of situations in regard to our extradition settlement with Hong Kong” and that Australia experienced formally notified Hong Kong and Chinese authorities of the…
