Hong Kong's Chief Executive John Lee has vowed to carefully define national security offenses under new legislation. He dismissed concerns about centralized power, emphasizing the sensitive nature of such information.

Hong Kong’s leader has pledged to exercise prudence and seriousness when defining national security offences under newly proposed legislation, dismissing concerns about a centralisation of power and stressing that the process often involves “state players” and highly sensitive information. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also said on Tuesday that the subsidiary legislation, which introduces a classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security” under the city’s domestic.....