June 6, 2023
HONG KONG – The Commissioner’s Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region deplored on Sunday the interference in the city’s affairs by certain US politicians and some missions stationed in Hong Kong, including the consulates-general of the US and Canada.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the office said they used the rhetoric of human rights “as a tool to echo some anti-China forces” in Hong Kong, attempt to stir up problems, and interfere in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs.
“We urge a few external forces and some foreign missions stationed in Hong Kong, including the Consulate-General of the United States, to recognize the situation, change course, uphold international law and basic norms governing international relations, abide by the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and immediately stop futile political manipulation,” the spokesperson said.
“They must abandon the wishful thinking of disrupting Hong Kong and containing China, and stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs in any form, otherwise they will be firmly opposed by the 1.4 billion Chinese people!”
The spokesperson said that the great achievements made in the past seven decades since the founding of the People’s Republic of China fully show that China’s chosen development path is absolutely correct and has won the firm support of the Chinese people.
“However, by hyping up an event that has long come to a conclusion, a small number of external forces are obsessed with acting as clowns to throw dirty water on China, put a spoke in the wheel of Hong Kong’s development, and incite antagonism and confrontation,” the spokesperson said.
“The old trick of ideological infiltration and peaceful evolution has long been seen through. Those who play this trick are just overestimating their own strength and their plots will be consigned to the dustbin of history.”
The spokesperson pointed out that a few Western countries have a bad human rights record themselves, especially the United States.
“In history, it committed the heinous crimes of genocide and colonialism; today, it faces deep-seated domestic problems such as money politics, racism and huge chasm between the rich and the poor. It has also waged war all over the world, resulting in the displacement of millions of people,” the spokesperson said.
“Some politicians and missions stationed in Hong Kong have selective amnesia of their own historical sins and poor human rights records, and wantonly attack and interfere in others’ affairs under the guise of ‘human rights, which is purely hypocritical, double-standard and ridiculous!”
The spokesperson stressed that today’s China is on a new journey of advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
“Today’s Hong Kong is moving from chaos to stability and prosperity along the right track of the practice of ‘one country, two systems’. Nothing could stop the historical trend and nothing will prevail over the will of the Chinese people,” the spokesperson said.