On: Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden’s Hideout

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China can veto any extradition.

HK and US have a mutual extradition treaty for actions that are illegal in both countries. Presumably leaking state secrets is illegal in HK. Furthermore, HK is quite willing to extradite to US and does so on regular basis.

So the question of why China (or HK if you prefer), remains.

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I think it's been answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853901

Hong Kong currently has a moratorium on extradition of asylum seekers.