China tells Britain to keep its 'colonial' hands off Hong Kong in a war of words over Britain's interference in protests
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. China called the violence an "undisguised challenge" to the "one country, two systems" model under which Hong Kong has been ruled for 22 years.
The comments clearly irked Beijing. China's London envoy scolded Britain and said meddling in Hong Kong would cause a "problem in the relationship" between them. Britain said it had summoned Liu to the foreign office following his "unacceptable" comments, a government source said.
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