China demanded that US diplomats based in Hong Kong “stop interfering” in the city’s affairs, after reports that they met with pro-democracy activists.
People wave their cell phone lights at a protest held by civil servants in the Central District of Hong Kong on August 2, 2019, in the latest opposition to a planned extradition law that was quickly evolved into a wider movement for democratic reforms.
BEIJING — China demanded Thursday that US diplomats based in Hong Kong “stop interfering” in the city’s affairs, after reports that they met with pro-democracy activists. The foreign ministry said it had expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with US authorities, citing local media reports that a US official from Hong Kong’s US consulate general had met with a local “independence group”.In a statement Thursday, the ministry urged the diplomatic office to “immediately make a clean break with various anti-China rioters” and “stop interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs immediately.
A report in Hong Kong newspaper Takungpao said there had been a meeting between members of the political party Demosisto — including prominent democracy activist Joshua Wong — and Julie Eadeh, political unit chief of the US consulate general in Hong Kong.
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