China News Service, Beijing, July 17. A spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council made a statement on the 17th, expressing strong indignation and severe condemnation of the US government’s announcement of imposing so-called sanctions on officials of our central government agencies in Hong Kong and spreading absurd warnings about Hong Kong business.

  The spokesman said that the US's comments on the current business environment in Hong Kong are pure nonsense.

Hong Kong’s national security law protects Hong Kong’s safety, stability, and tranquility. It effectively promotes Hong Kong’s transformation from chaos to governance and back to the right track. It also provides a good social environment for Hong Kong’s economic development.

Over the past year, important economic indicators such as Hong Kong’s IPO funds and total deposits in the banking system have increased significantly. International investors generally believe that Hong Kong’s status as an international financial center will be more stable and the business environment will be better after the implementation of the National Security Law.

The lies of the United States in slandering Hong Kong have long since been self-defeating.

  The spokesman said that the Chinese people have never believed in or feared evil.

The so-called sanctions imposed by the US on Chinese officials will not change the Chinese government’s firm determination to safeguard national sovereignty, security, development interests, and Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability in accordance with the law. The Chinese people and the people of the world have further seen the ugly face of American hegemonism and power politics.

  The spokesperson finally emphasized that Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Whether it is enacting and implementing the Hong Kong National Security Law or improving the Hong Kong election system, it is China's internal affairs, and the United States has no right to interfere.

The U.S. has repeatedly played useless sanctions tricks, which not only fully reveals its arrogant and hegemonic violation of international law and basic norms of international relations, but also exposes its hypocrisy of safeguarding "democracy, human rights, and freedom", and it also exposes its inferiority and inefficient "paper tiger" nature. Contemptible.

We despise this, and firmly believe that this move will only accelerate the arrival of their agents in Hong Kong, the anti-China chaos in Hong Kong, and will only lift up rocks and smash them on their own feet!

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