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Written by: Chen Chuolan
2021-01-16 22:48
Last update date: 2021-01-16 22:48
The U.S. Treasury Department announced yesterday (15th) that it will impose a new round of sanctions on six people including Tan Yaozong, member of the Standing Committee of the Hong Kong People's Congress and Cai Zhanpeng, director of the National Security Division of the Police Department, alleging that they are related to the earlier arrests of a large number of Hong Kong democrats.
The spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong issued a document today (16th) expressing great indignation and firm opposition to the US sanctions, and strongly condemned it.
It even described the US as fearing that there would be no chaos in Hong Kong and that China would not be in chaos, but emphasized that it cannot stop Hong Kong from chaos to governance and China's development and growth.
The spokesperson pointed out that it is an international practice to formulate and implement laws to punish crimes that endanger national security.
The Chinese government enacted the "Hong Kong National Security Law" in strict accordance with China's Constitution and the Basic Law to provide a solid guarantee for the stability and long-term development of "One Country, Two Systems". It also believes that the National Security Law fully protects the rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents in accordance with the law.
The spokesperson retorted the US claim that the US itself has established a legal system for safeguarding national security, but it has arbitrarily interfered with China's legislation prohibiting just actions that endanger national security on its own land, exposing the US's double standards.
▼List of Chinese and Hong Kong officials under the new round of US sanctions▼
Alleged that the primary election seriously undermined the fairness and justice of the Legislative Council election
The spokesperson emphasized that the people involved in the "primary election" seriously undermined the fairness and justice of the Legislative Council elections, blatantly attempted to paralyze the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, and were suspected of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law.
The arrested persons are by no means "politics and activists supporting democracy" as Western politicians refer to.
The article pointed out that after the implementation of the National Security Law, the citizens have made a major transition from chaos to governance, and put "one country, two systems" back on track.
The spokesperson criticized US politicians for stigmatizing and demonizing Hong Kong's National Security Law, slandering the proper enforcement of the SAR government, pushing for sanctions on Chinese officials, describing the US for fear of Hong Kong and China, and wantonly undermining Hong Kong’s rule of law and a high degree of autonomy, and brutal trampling. Basic norms of international law and international relations.
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The Hong Kong version of the National Security Law of the Office of the Special Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong