Sixteen members of the New Territories West District were ruled to invalidate the oath. The United States and the United Kingdom expressed concern.
The spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the British and American remarks on October 22.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on the 22nd that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government's cancellation of the qualifications of relevant personnel as district councilors in accordance with the Basic Law and relevant regulations of the Special Administrative Region is reasonable and legal and beyond doubt.
The picture shows the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin presided over a press conference on September 6.
(Chinese Foreign Ministry)
Wang Wenbin said that the British and American caring about the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong people is false, disrupting the rule of law in Hong Kong, and undermining Hong Kong's stability, lest it be true that Hong Kong will not be chaotic.
The British Foreign Minister said that he was deeply concerned about the disqualification of many district councillors in Hong Kong. China issued the "China United Nations Cooperation Position Paper" against pseudo-multilateralism. The Western District Councillors of the New Territories swear an oath.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement on October 21 stating that these district councillors were authorized by the people from free and fair elections in 2019, but the Hong Kong government arbitrarily decided that their oaths were invalidated, retroactively and targeted disqualified them as members, preventing Hong Kong. People participate meaningfully in autonomy.
The article called on the Chinese government to abide by the promises made to Hong Kong people in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss posted on Twitter on October 21 that Hong Kong’s cancellation of the qualifications of some district councillors is deeply worrying.
She called on the Hong Kong government to maintain freedom of speech.
