US report on Hong Kong lays bare the ‘evil intentions of anti-China forces’, foreign ministry office says

‘We again urge the relevant American politicians to immediately stop meddling’ in city’s affairs, office of the commissioner of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong

Statement repeats Beijing’s claim that US is the ‘black hand behind the chaos’ in the city

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China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong has urged US politicians to “stop meddling” in the city’s affairs. Photo: Felix Wong

Published: 3:54pm, 16 Nov 2019Updated: 11:59pm, 16 Nov 2019

China’s foreign ministry representative in Hong Kong said on Friday that an annual report by a US congressional commission that monitors the national security implications of US-China relations “laid bare the evil intention of anti-China forces”.

“We again urge the relevant American politicians to immediately stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs,” the office of the commissioner of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong said in a statement.

“China’s territory is not somewhere foreign forces can run wild.”

The statement came in response to the publication of a report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which said the US should suspend Hong Kong’s special economic status if Beijing used its military to intervene in the troubled city.

China expressed its “strong disapproval” and “firm opposition” to the report, saying it “grossly distorted the truth, made unwarranted remarks on Hong Kong … and pointed fingers at China’s internal affairs as a whole”.

“The report has provided more solid evidence that the anti-China forces in the US are exactly the black hand behind the chaos in Hong Kong, who have been caught on the spot,” the statement said, adding that the US report “laid bare the evil intentions of anti-China forces in the US”.

It did not, however, provide any evidence to support its claims.

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