BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong on Thursday lodged a strong protest with the United States and urged US officials to stop sending false references to what they called "violent separatists."
China also asked the United States to provide clarification on media reports of contacts between US officials and separatist leaders, the Foreign Ministry's office said on its website.
Authorities warn
"They have seriously undermined law and order in Hong Kong and are pushing our city - the city we love and that many of us have contributed to - to the brink of a very dangerous situation," she said.
The official pointed to the chants of the demonstrators calling for "revolution", describing it as a challenge to the policy of "one country and two systems," which Hong Kong has been run since its return to Chinese rule from Britain.
The Chinese army has described the demonstrations in Hong Kong as unacceptable, and broadcast a propaganda video showing a maneuver of soldiers suppressing a demonstration in the autonomous city under Chinese sovereignty.
Chinese Revolution
Hong Kong's protests, launched in protest at a bill allowing extradition to China, have turned into a revolution demanding democracy, an end to communist rule and the region's secession from China.
The newspaper - in an article by Gordon Chang - that the slogans of demonstrators anti-communist rule and demand for autonomy during the general strike and protests in Hong Kong yesterday; indicate that the protests took another turn.
Under the agreement to hand over Hong Kong to China, the city's residents enjoy rights and freedoms not found in the rest of China, including judicial independence and freedom of expression, but many say these freedoms are on the decline.