{"id":91404,"date":"2019-07-15T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91404"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:23:56","slug":"hong-kong-a-part-of-china-shall-allow-no-external-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/15\/hong-kong-a-part-of-china-shall-allow-no-external-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong, a Part of China, Shall Allow No External Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ambassador Cheng Xueyuan<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

What\nhappened recently in Hong Kong Autonomous Region (SAR) of China has shocked the\nworld. On 1 July, the 22nd<\/sup> anniversary of Hong Kong\u2019s return to\nmainland China, some riots with the dressed lie of democracy, acted like cruel\nextremists, broke into the Legislative Council building of Hong Kong, and\nvandalized various facilities. What enraged China and shocked the world further\nis British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt\u2019s remarks on the second day. Mr. Hunt\nsaid that the UK stands behind people in Hong Kong in defence of the\nfreedoms that Britain negotiated for them, and the Hong Kong authorities must\nnot use demonstrators’ vandalism as a pretext for repression.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would\nstress that China has resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong and the Chinese\ngovernment started administering Hong Kong since 1997. The 150 years\u2019\nhumiliating history of Hong Kong being a colony to UK since 1840s has gone. It\nseems that someone is still immersed in the faded glory of colonialism. Mr.\nHunt is obsessed with condescendingly criticizing other countries and keeps\nlying without remorse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, after\nHong Kong’s return to China, British rights and obligations as outlined in the\nSino-British Joint Declaration were completed. The UK has no sovereignty or\nrights to rule and supervise Hong Kong after the handover. There is no room for\nBritain to claim any so-called responsibility over Hong Kong whatsoever.\nClaiming itself the guardian of Hong Kong is nothing more than\nself-entertaining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Second, Mr\nHunt says that the UK negotiated freedoms for Hong Kong. How brazen is that!\nWas there any democracy when the British governors were in Hong Kong? People in\nHong Kong didn’t even have the right to take to the streets then. It is only\nafter the return that Hong Kong residents started enjoying unprecedented\ndemocratic rights and freedoms. The Chinese Government strictly follows the\nConstitution and the Basic Law. It earnestly implements the one country, two\nsystems\u201d policy. It ensures that the people of Hong Kong govern Hong Kong with\na high degree of autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Third, the\nviolent storming into the Legislative Council on July 1 is a grave illegal\nactivity. It tramples on the rule of law and undermines social order. In total\ndisregard of facts, Mr. Hunt called the SAR government’s response\n“repression”. That is entirely misleading. We want to ask Mr. Hunt,\nif it were the British Parliament that had been broken into and vandalized,\nwhat would the British government do? Will it sit by idly and let the\nprotesters have their way? Will he call the British police’s handling of the\nAugust 2011 riot in London “repression”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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London in 2011<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In London<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those\nexternal forces who under the disguise of all self-boasting justice and human\nrights, are actually bullying other countries all the time while interfering\nwith others\u2019 internal affairs. In the colonial times, they exploited wealth and\nenslaved people from other countries. In the new ear, with the old mindset,\nthey are making use of every opportunity to stick nose into others\u2019 internal\naffairs and create chaos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Countries like China and Sri Lanka, who shared a common history of being bullied and colonized by powers should always remain vigilant in terms of external interference. Such interference can never bring benefits, but only trouble, chaos and disasters. China, adhering to independent and peaceful diplomatic policies, will never interfere with others\u2019 internal affairs and is strongly against such behavior. We should always insist on independence, fight against external interference and make their own decisions. Only in this way can we march toward the right direction and embrace a brighter future.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ambassador Cheng Xueyuan What happened recently in Hong Kong Autonomous Region (SAR) of China has shocked the world. On 1 July, the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong\u2019s return to mainland China, some riots with the dressed lie of democracy, acted like cruel extremists, broke into the Legislative Council building of Hong Kong, and vandalized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}