SCIO briefing on the current situation in Hong Kong
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China Daily:
On Aug. 31, US President Donald Trump tied the Sino-U.S. trade war to the situation in Hong Kong. He once again urged China to handle the Hong Kong protests in a "humane fashion." In addition, a statement issued at the G7 summit that ended on Aug. 26 stated that "the G7 reaffirms the existence and importance of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 on Hong Kong and calls for violence to be avoided." What's your comment on this? Thank you.
Yang Guang:
Thank you. It must be stated that the UK has no right to "supervise" Hong Kong affairs. According to the general principles of international law and the basic norms of international relations, all countries have sovereign equality and their internal affairs are free from foreign interference. After the handover, Hong Kong became a local administrative region of China. Hong Kong affairs are China's internal affairs and no nation has the right to interfere. We have stated that position many times.
However, over the past three months, we have seen that some politicians in the West, especially in the United States, are constantly making irresponsible remarks about Hong Kong. I will not list them separately here today because there are too many. I examined their remarks seriously. No matter what they said, the ideas and the way they are expressed can be summarized as the following two types. For one thing, they lied through their teeth in a serious manner, talked in a way turning black into white, disregarded the facts, and confused right and wrong. Whenever the police strictly enforced the law, they would say that the police were wrong and used excessive force. Whenever there was violence instigated by radicals in demonstrations, they would express sympathy and understanding. For another, they constantly supported and agitated a few rioters, fearing they may lose their nerve and chicken out. I think, after all, for three months, their various remarks centered on nothing more than these two types. I believe that if there is a riot in their own country, like that happening in Hong Kong, they would never dare to speak like this to their own police. It can be seen that the purpose of these people is definitely not for the bright future of Hong Kong. They just want to fish in troubled waters when they see some confusion in Hong Kong. All they want is to mess up Hong Kong and create trouble for China. That is all. I want to warn these Western gentlemen that Hong Kong is China's Hong Kong and we will never allow any foreign interference in its affairs. Their tricks were used and worked elsewhere, leaving widespread devastation in those areas; however, in Hong Kong, the land of China, this set of tricks won't work. Stop daydreaming!
Speaking of this, a few lines from the poem of Chairman Mao occurred to me: "On this tiny globe, a few flies dash themselves against the wall, humming without cease, sometimes shrilling, sometimes moaning." This is indeed an apt metaphor.
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