Pedestrians cross a footbridge displaying the national flags of China and the regional flags of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, on Sept 29, 2022. (ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

HONG KONG – The Commissioner’s Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong on Thursday firmly rejected a letter sent by some US senators to the US government with the third anniversary of the so-called “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” as an excuse.

The move defamed the National Security Law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and interfered in the SAR’s affairs and China’s internal affairs, a spokesperson of the office said in a statement.

“We urge relevant US politicians to stop their political performance,” it reads.

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The enactment of the so-called “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” three years ago was a gross interference in China’s internal affairs with US domestic laws, the statement said. 

A few number of anti-China politicians in the US are in no position to bully others by abusing US domestic laws. The US must ditch its double standards and hypocrisy immediately!

Spokesperson, Commissioner’s Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in HKSAR

“Today, certain US politicians are trying to use such an absurd act to attack the national security law, and interfere in Hong Kong’s rule of law and judicial independence. They even side with anti-China forces in Hong Kong and call on the US government to pressure China and Hong Kong. By doing so, they are making themselves a laughing stock, and the Chinese people, Hong Kong compatriots included, will not sit idly by.”

Countries around the world should uphold the global order underpinned by international law and basic norms of international relations centered on the UN Charter, the spokesperson said. “However, some US politicians, in disregard of international law and the basic norms governing international relations, are obsessed with interfering in Hong Kong affairs with sanctions, impeding US businesses from investing in Hong Kong, and even clamoring for reducing the voting share of Hong Kong in multilateral mechanisms”.

This has fully exposed their intention of disrupting Hong Kong and using Hong Kong to contain China and their wishful thinking will never come true, added the spokesperson.

The spokesperson pointed out that the US – a country with a poor track record of human rights and democracy both at home and abroad – is in no position to point a finger at internal affairs of other countries and regions. 

“A few number of anti-China politicians in the US are in no position to bully others by abusing US domestic laws,” the spokesperson stressed, adding: “The US must ditch its double standards and hypocrisy immediately!”

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Hong Kong is part of China and is governed by the rule of law, and Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs, the statement said. 

“We urge relevant politicians in the US to recognize the situation, abide by the principles of international law and the basic norms governing international relations, stop interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs and China’s internal affairs, and refrain from going further down the wrong path.”