> I'm not likely to go to Hong Kong, so I don't need to worry too much about setting foot there and having to face consequences. But you'd still have to worry

> I'm not likely to go to Hong Kong, so I don't need to worry too much about setting foot there and having to face consequences. But you'd still have to worry a little bit -- if you're flying in the region your plane could possibly get diverted there due to weather or all kinds of other reasons. > But I am married to a Chinese national and we tend to visit Shanghai and Anhui every 2-3 years, and I'm not sure how much safer, if at all, that is. If they care about complying with the letter of the law, I suppose they could transport you to HK for prosecution under this law. But given this is China, they undoubtedly have many similar laws on the mainland, and if they decided to prosecute you it doesn't really matter if their legal justification is thin. IIRC, in the Soviet Union, the prosecutor not the judge was the one really calling the shots in the courtroom, and I wouldn't be surprised if China was similar.