The Foreign Minister of the Five Eyes Alliance issued a joint statement on the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council on December 20, criticizing the erosion of the democratic elements of Hong Kong’s electoral system.
The Commissioner’s Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong stated on the 20th that this is a serious mistake of wanton interference in China’s internal affairs.
According to the website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, the spokesperson of the Office in Hong Kong said that the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand made irresponsible remarks about the election of the seventh legislative council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, discrediting and slandering the new electoral system of the Special Administrative Region. This expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition.
The spokesperson pointed out that the politicians of the countries concerned have repeatedly moved out of the National Security Law’s so-called "chilling effect" and other clichés in order to create a panic that "everyone is at risk." This will only further expose their gloomy psychology that they are unwilling to stabilize and govern Hong Kong. "These countries Not only do politicians refrain from introspection and change their chores, but instead they insist on going their own way.
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The spokesperson emphasized that the days when external interference forces wantonly intervened in Hong Kong affairs by supporting political agents are gone.
China urges the politicians of relevant countries to respect the general historical trend and the trend of the times, abide by the principles of non-interference in internal affairs and other international law principles and basic norms of international relations, and immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs in any form.