‘No foreign forces behind Hong Kong protests’, says Legco president Jasper Tsang
Legco president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing on Wednesday disputed allegations that foreign forces were behind Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, contradicting claims by the city’s leader and Beijing.
Legco president and pro-establishment lawmaker Jasper Tsang Yok-sing on Wednesday disputed allegations that foreign forces were behind Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, contradicting claims by the city’s leader and Beijing.
Jasper Tsang Yok-sing said he did not believe foreigners were a driving force behind a month of rallies and roadblocks calling for full democracy in the city
“I can’t see it happening,” he said in an interview with Cable TV.
“Unless you treat foreign diplomats expressing concerns as an intervention by external forces. I think their concerns, raised objectively, were not intended to influence, dominate or instigate any side,” he said.
Parts of the city have been paralysed by the protests calling on Beijing to rescind its insistence that candidates for the city’s next leader be vetted by a loyalist committee before standing for election in 2017.
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Beijing has refused to back down over what has become the most serious challenge to Chinese rulers since the crackdown on a pro-democracy movement in 1989 in Beijing.