China Warns Foreign Powers Not To Use Hong Kong As A 'Bridgehead'
Source: REUTERS
By Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING Sat Aug 30, 2014 2:10am EDT
(Reuters) - China has warned against any foreign interference ahead of a crucial ruling on the city's political future on Sunday, saying Beijing will not tolerate the use of Hong Kong "as a bridgehead to subvert and infiltrate the mainland".
China's largely rubber-stamp parliament is set to meet on Sunday, when it is expected to limit 2017 elections for Hong Kong's leader to a handful of pro-Beijing candidates, a move likely to escalate plans by pro-democracy activists to blockade the city's Central business district.
According to state media, an unidentified spokesman from the Chinese foreign ministry's Department of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Affairs said China would promptly "make solemn representations" to any "external force" that interfered in Hong Kong's internal affairs.
Hong Kong is a special administrative region (SAR) of China, administered by what is known as the Basic Law.
In an interview with state news agency Xinhua on Friday, the unidentified spokesman said "some people" ignored the long-term interests of Hong Kong and the provisions of the Basic Law "to collude with external forces in an attempt to interfere [with] the SAR government administration".
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msongs
(67,347 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)cstanleytech
(26,223 posts)After all its been proven pretty much that as far as making the laws goes we the people have little to no say unless we are loaded with a few billion to buy off the varies elected officials and or a number of SCOTUS judges.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Cue the Trojan horse
newthinking
(3,982 posts)Why is China basically warning the west? What are they referring to?
20 years of fairly cooperative economics and other activity with really no direct warnings or confrontation until now? China is doing well, there haven't been any real internal shakeups, why is the nature of our relationship changing relatively quickly?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)It's about an emerging sense of Hong Kong nationalism and other anti-communist movements.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)The rest of the world sees what's going on.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Maybe China's leaders are inspired by Putin's actions in Ukraine. Authoritarian leaders learn from the mistakes and successes of other authoritarian leaders. If I lived in Hong Kong or Taiwan I might see some relevance between events in Ukraine and the Chinese government's intentions towards me. The West really can't or won't stop a country with a strong military from forcefully extending its 'influence' over weaker neighbors.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)"R2P" in Libya, "Euromaidan" in Ukraine and supporting the "moderate rebels" in Syria, the rest of the world doesn't trust us and thinks everything we touch turns to disaster.
It's time to take off the neocon-colored glasses and put away the "spreading liberal democracy" excuse - that dog don't hunt no more.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,018 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)That will not be a good day.