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Following are the countries that supported and opposed China’s Hong Kong national security law.

The supporting countries: China, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia,  Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, UAE, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The opposing countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.


 

China’s backers include many of the world’s dictatorships including North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Three small free countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, and Suriname with a combined population of fewer than 1 million people also supported Beijing.

The motivation for about 40 signatories favoring the end of Hong Kong’s autonomy may be linked to China’s multi-trillion-dollar endeavor called the Belt and Road Infrastructure project that will offer vast amounts of financial aid and loans to poor countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has a role as well because many African countries might use their approval of the Hong Kong law to renegotiate debt payments to China while their economies recover from the disease related downturns.

Critics of the law are mostly free European countries and major democracies like Australia, Canada, and Japan.

 

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