Passage: Confidence in Hong Kong's future depends on its new status as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China not leading to an erosion of the rule of law or key rights such as free speech, the right to assembly and form political parties and data protection, the commission report noted. Primary responsibility for ensuing that the SAR lives up to its tasks lies with the Hong Kong government and Chinese authorities, but the EU also had a role to play in monitoring events.
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