Those charged under the new law could be tried on the mainland. Legal experts say the measure ends any remaining autonomy the region enjoys under Chinese rule.

On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong transitioned from British colony to Chinese region. Hong Kongers born in the year of the handover reflect on how their lives and futures have been shaped by that moment.

Despite fierce international criticism and opposition in Hong Kong, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature passed a law allowing the mainland to impose security measures in the former British colony.

At least 15 Chinese workers' rights advocates who were rounded up in recent years have been released from detention, some taking on new identities and jobs, on condition that they abandon activism.

The idea is to reduce the risk of spread of viruses through animal-human contact. Bamboo rat breeders are devastated by the loss of income. And critics say the ban has too many loopholes.

Meet some of the people in China who lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic. They have not forgotten the weeks of isolation, fear and heartbreak.

More than 250 coronavirus cases in the last two weeks have been linked back to the sprawling produce market in Beijing. The city is sparing no measure to contain the outbreak.

India says 20 of its troops are dead after a confrontation with Chinese soldiers on the two countries' disputed border, high in the Himalayas. It was the first deadly clash there in decades.

A cluster of COVID-19 cases, linked to a produce market in Beijing, sparked fears of a second wave. Officials are resurrecting some lockdown measures and testing tens of thousands of nearby residents.

Officials have discovered 79 symptomatic cases of the coronavirus linked to the Xinfadi food market, prompting a return to partial lockdown measures and fears of a second wave of infections.

Measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic have devastated China's economy, shutting factories and urban jobs that millions of migrant workers depend upon. Many now seek jobs in their villages.

Hong Kong police had denied organizers permission to hold an annual rally commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre victims. But few thousands of people have gathered anyway in defiance of the ban.

Thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park to commemorate the victims of the 1989 massacre in Beijing by China's military — even though this year's rallies were officially canceled.

Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. And as Hong Kong fights now to keep its limited autonomy, police ban the city's annual Tiananmen vigil.

China sees the widespread protests in the U.S. as a prime opportunity to condemn what it sees as U.S. hypocrisy in its criticism of other nations' human rights abuses.

Hong Kong is supposed to be a semiautonomous enclave of China, "one country, two systems." But China is moving to impose a sweeping national security law on the city, which critics say is illegal.

The Trump administration issued tough export rules this month, which analysts say could spell a death knell for the company's worldwide mobile network ambitions.

Protests continue as Beijing moves closer to a national security law for Hong Kong. And, U.S.-China relations took a hit, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Hong Kong's autonomy is over.

Protests in Hong Kong rekindled as Beijing signals it will push through a national security law that could end Hong Kong's limited autonomy. The protest was in defiance of social distancing rules.

The government chose not to set a GDP growth target for this year because of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, economic policy will focus on reducing unemployment and poverty.