China to Britain: Keep your 'colonial' hands off Hong Kong
2019-07-04 10:16:53 source：The Straits Times
July 4, 2019
BEIJING/LONDON (REUTERS) - China told Britain to keep its hands off Hong Kong on Wednesday (July 3) while London called for Beijing to honour the agreements made when the city was handed over in 1997, escalating a diplomatic spat over the former British colony.
Beijing denounced British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt as "shameless" and said it had made a diplomatic complaint to London after he warned of consequences if China neglected its commitments to guarantee basic freedoms.
"In the minds of some people, they regard Hong Kong as still under British rule. They forget... that Hong Kong has now returned to the embrace of the Motherland," China's ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, said.
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