Recently, China has announced the suspension of Hong Kong’s extradition treaties and criminal justice cooperation agreements with Australia, Britain and Canada. Australia, Britain and Canada along with New Zealand and the USA are part of the Five Eyes (FVEY), which is an intelligence-sharing alliance between these five countries.
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This move comes after these three countries first suspended the treaties after China imposed new security law on Hong Kong.
These western nations see the law imposed on Hong Kong as an erosion of the civil liberties and human rights it had enjoyed since its handover from Britain in 1997.
China has accused these countries of interfering in its internal affairs and defended the security law as crucial to restore order in Hong Kong.
It held that these three countries chose the wrong path of politicising judicial cooperation with Hong Kong, and it has seriously hurt the basis of judicial cooperation.
They used the national security law as an excuse to announce the suspension of extradition treaties unilaterally.
