2024-04-16 04:30:00
UK guarantees safety for Hong Kong residents in UK, Hong Kong government criticizes national security law
16.04.2024
The British government released a report on April 15 to assure Hong Kong people in the UK that the 23 newly introduced legislation in Hong Kong will not affect them. The Hong Kong government and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the UK has no right to interfere in Hong Kong affairs.
(Deutsche Welle Chinese website) The British government released its “Semi-Annual Report on Hong Kong” on Monday (April 15). It was strongly rebutted by the Hong Kong government, criticizing the British side for “repeating the same tactics” and making “fallacies that confuse right and wrong” once morest Hong Kong, and called on them to “Stop interfering in China’s internal affairs and Hong Kong affairs.”
According to Radio Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government, the Chinese Embassy in the UK, the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong and other units issued statements condemning the UK, saying that the UK’s statements on Hong Kong’s electoral system and last year’s district council elections were “completely untrue.”
The Hong Kong government maintains that “the chaos of the previous District Council is well known and disgusted by everyone in Hong Kong”, so it is necessary to “get the District Council back on track” so that those who “patriot and love Hong Kong” can participate.
China stated that it had made solemn representations to the British side. In addition to reiterating its consistent position of “Hong Kong is China’s Hong Kong” and “one country, two systems”, it also “urged the British side to respect the reality that Hong Kong has returned to China.”
In March this year, the legislation on Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law was quickly passed and officially came into effect; China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the new law “further consolidated the SAR’s solid barrier to safeguarding national security” and “no matter how many times the British side slanders and smears, it will It is impossible to change this ironclad fact.”
What did the British report say?
Former Prime Minister David Cameron, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote in the preface of the government’s regular report on Hong Kong: “The National Security Bill has no effect in the UK, and we do not have any extradition treaty in force with Hong Kong or China. … I I want to assure our distinguished Hong Kong community in the UK: you are safe here.”
Hong Kong, China’s Special Administrative Region, introduced a new national security bill at the end of March, prohibiting treason, sabotage, sedition, theft of state secrets, and espionage, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Beijing said the new bill was “very necessary” to maintain Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability. Western countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have criticized the new bill as a new tool for the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to suppress dissent.
Foreign Secretary Cameron said that this new bill that has been hastily passed through the legislative process is “likely to be incompatible with the international bill of rights and inconsistent with the international standards that Hong Kong is committed to upholding, and will have a negative impact on the Hong Kong people’s exercise of their rights and freedoms” ”
existIn March this year, the Hong Kong SAR authorities enacted the National Security Law in accordance with Article 23 of the Basic Law.Previously, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress had introduced the Hong Kong National Security Law in the form of an annex to the Basic Law in 2020.
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