A Hong Kong pro-independence party may be outlawed if it fails to meet a government request to explain within 21 days why it should not be banned. The Hong Kong National Party (香港民族黨, HKNP) was founded on March 28, 2016, by Andy Chan Ho-tin (陳浩天), who was then a 26-year-old engineering and business administration student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU). Although the Party did not have more than 50 members, its formation angered the central government in Beijing. A spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council told state-run Xinhua that the newly established pro-independence party harmed "national sovereignty and security, as well as Hong Kong's prosperity and stability," and that it violated the Constitution, the Basic Law and relevant regulations. Embed from Getty Images On July 17 Chan disclosed that two police inspectors went to his home early that morning and handed him a thick pile of documents th