The Hong Kong politician Margaret Ng believes that China has wanted to implement a national security law in Hong Kong under their terms for years, and are using the 2019 protests as an excuse, saying that "China has always found it difficult to accept the kind of freedom and restraint to power that Hong Kong has under a separate system".[1] Man-Kei Tam, the Hong Kong director of Amnesty International, described the Chinese legislation as "Orwellian".[32]