HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's plans to approve extraditions to the mainland have sparked alarm within the city's business and legal communities who fear it will hammer the financial hub's international appeal and tangle people up in China's opaque courts. The proposal, which will be debated in Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday, would allow the transfer of fugitives with Taiwan, Macau and mainland China on a "case-basis" for the first time. But it comes at a time of roiling distrust over how Beijing wields its authoritarian legal system -- and as two Canadian nationals languish in Chinese custody following the arrest of a top Huawei executive in Vancouver. Critics fea...
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