China News Service, Hong Kong, October 4th. In response to the US State Department spokesperson’s inverting black and white, slandering and discrediting Hong Kong police’s enforcement actions, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition on the 4th, demanding that the US immediately stop under the guise of human rights and the rule of law Intervene in Hong Kong affairs.
The spokesman said that on October 1, someone in Hong Kong participated in an unauthorized assembly and possessed offensive weapons. They were suspected of violating the laws of the Special Administrative Region.
Hong Kong laws such as the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China fully protect the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents, but the exercise of any individual right cannot harm the rights of others and the public interest, let alone go beyond the law.
Hong Kong is a society under the rule of law. Everyone is equal before the law. Everyone must abide by the law and cannot be above the law.
Laws must be followed and violations must be investigated. The police enforce the law in order to maintain the rule of law, maintain social order and protect the lives and property of Hong Kong citizens.
The spokesperson pointed out that the United States itself often arrests illegal assembly persons.
According to public media reports, in May, August, and September this year alone, the police in Los Angeles, California, Yavape County, Arizona, and Portland, Oregon arrested illegal assemblers.
The U.S. turned a blind eye to this, but ignored the illegal facts in Hong Kong, slandered Hong Kong police enforcement actions under the guise of safeguarding freedom of assembly and speech, pressured the SAR government, and slandered the Chinese government for sabotaging the "one country, two systems". This is a naked double standard. The typical thief shouts to catch the thief.
The purpose of the US is to cover up and condone illegal actions by anti-China chaos in Hong Kong, in an attempt to mess up Hong Kong and undermine "one country, two systems."
The spokesman emphasized that Hong Kong is China's Hong Kong, and the United States' attempts to obstruct the SAR government's administration according to law and undermine China's sovereignty and security and Hong Kong's prosperity and stability will not succeed.
The Chinese government's determination to implement the "one country, two systems" policy is unwavering, and its determination to oppose the intervention of external forces is unwavering. It urges the US to immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs in any form and not go further and further down the wrong path.
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