Hong Kong National Party reiterates call for independence at meeting with Mongolian exiles
Radicals strike defiant note as President Xi Jinping issues stern warning against separatism in any form
The radical localist Hong Kong National Party has again demanded independence for the city at a meeting with Mongolian exiles in Japan.
Party convenor Andy Chan Ho-tin said in a statement on Friday that he and party spokesman Jason Chow Ho-fai were invited to the inaugural meeting of the world conference for Southern Mongolia (or Quriltai) in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss national independence and human rights in East Asia.
Chan, who was disqualified from the Legislative Council elections in August, said the party hoped to cooperate with Quriltai, formed by Mongolian political parties and people in exile, and Uygur, Tibetan, Taiwanese and mainland Chinese human rights organisations.
The Hong Kong nation should ... prepare ourselves to face the ever increasing efforts of our Chinese colonisers
The pair would also meet the chairman of the Inner Mongolian People’s Party, Temtsiltu Shobtsood.
“The Inner Mongolian and other political leaders have not shown any signs of giving up their own independence,” the statement read. “The Hong Kong nation should thus, when there is still time, seize the day when Hong Kong’s advantages yet still exist, and prepare ourselves to face the ever increasing efforts of our Chinese colonisers.”
Beijing is wary of “collusion” between separatist forces in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Tibet and Xinjiang. On Friday President Xi Jinping drew a line against separatism in any form, amid strained ties with Taiwan and Beijing’s moves to quash independence sentiments in Hong Kong.