Haiwaiwang, August 20. According to Hong Kong’s Wenhui.com and other Hong Kong media reports, on August 19 local time, the US State Department used China’s enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Act as an excuse to claim that it had notified the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government that the US had suspended or terminated its relationship with Hong Kong. Three bilateral agreements. Affected agreements include the surrender of fugitive offenders, the surrender of sentenced persons, and the exemption of international shipping profits tax.
Previously, in response to the news that the United States may cancel the surrender agreement with Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Department of Justice Zheng Ruohua responded on July 15 that national security is the safeguard of national territorial integrity, unity and sovereignty enjoyed by any sovereign country. Basic legislative rights. If any country attempts to use some measures to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, it will violate international norms and the international practice of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. On the issue of national sovereignty, the central government will definitely continue to safeguard national security and sovereignty.
It is worth noting that after Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, the United States has become another country in the "Five Eyes Alliance" countries that has to suspend the surrender agreement with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Prior to this, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand also unilaterally announced the suspension of the agreement on the surrender of fugitives signed with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the pretext of China's enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law. In response, China decided to suspend the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong-Canada, Hong Kong-Macao, Hong Kong-British and Hong Kong-New Zealand agreements on the surrender of fugitive offenders.
On July 28, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that recently, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom unilaterally announced the suspension of the agreement on the surrender of fugitives signed with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the pretext of China's enactment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region National Security Law, a move that grossly interfered with China. Internal affairs seriously violate international law and basic norms of international relations, and China firmly opposes this.
Wang Wenbin emphasized that, with the assistance and authorization of the central government, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has provided active assistance to Canada, Australia and the UK under the framework of the agreement in accordance with the Basic Law. Canada, Australia and the UK will cooperate in judicial cooperation with Hong Kong. The wrong act of politicization has seriously damaged the basis of judicial cooperation between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, and has deviated from the purpose of judicial cooperation and the maintenance of justice and the rule of law. For this reason, the Chinese side decided to suspend the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region agreement on the surrender of fugitive offenders between Hong Kong, Canada, Hong Kong and Macau, and Hong Kong and Britain.
In addition, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has issued a notice to the New Zealand Consulate General in Hong Kong on August 3, suspending the implementation of the "Agreement on the Transfer of Accused and Convicted Persons between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the New Zealand Government" and the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the New Zealand Government Regarding Criminal Judicial Assistance Agreement. The SAR government stated that New Zealand’s unilateral suspension of the agreement on the surrender of fugitives signed with the Hong Kong SAR is a double-standard political operation; it has grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs and seriously violated international law and basic norms of international relations. The Hong Kong SAR government strongly opposes this. (Overseas Net Yang Jia)