China Warns US: “Don’t Disturb” Hong Kong Social Order; Threatens “Bad Reaction”
Over the past few months, tensions have been high between the U.S. and China. Events such as China denying USS John C. Stennis and its escort ships access to a Hong Kong port showed just how strained relations have become between the two countries, and with China’s recent comments saying that U.S. activity near the Fiery Cross Reef “threatened China’s sovereignty and security interests”, one would assume that things couldn’t get much worse.
Alas, that assumption would be wrong. As Reuters reports, China is now accusing the U.S. of trying to “disturb” social order in Hong Kong, something that Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said will “cause Chinese people to go on alert and have a bad reaction.”
Channel NewsAsia has more…
BEIJING: China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday accused unidentified people in the United States of trying to “disturb” social order in Hong Kong, after the U.S. State Department expressed further concern the territory’s autonomy was being eroded.The State Department made the comments in its latest report on the former British colony, released on Wednesday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that as Hong Kong was a part of China, no other country had a right to interfere in its internal affairs.“We also remind the United States that certain people on the U.S. side have always wanted to disturb Hong Kong, disturb its socio-economic development, disturb the normal order of its residents’ lives, and even use the Hong Kong issue to interfere in China’s internal affairs,” he told a daily news briefing.
“This can only be futile. The only effect it will have is to cause Chinese people to go on alert and have a bad reaction.”
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