China summons US embassy official against Senate for passing HK-related act

• China urged the US to immediately take effective measures to prevent this act from being signed into law.
• China warns US it will have to take strong countermeasures and it must face all the consequences.
• Any attempt to undermine the stability of Hong Kong and to hinder China's development will end in failure: Chinese FM.

(Beijing) Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu on Wednesday summoned William Klein, charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in China, to lodge stern representations and strong protest against U.S. Senate for passing the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Tuesday.

The Vice-Foreign Minister said: "Hong Kong is China's Hong Kong and the Hong Kong's affairs are China's internal affairs, brooking no interference by any foreign government and force."

Ma said:"The act passed by the U.S. Senate is a blatant interference in the Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs. Such move has seriously violated the international law and the basic norms governing international relations. China firmly opposes it."

He urged the United States to immediately take effective measures to prevent this act from being signed into law, immediately stop interfering in the Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs. Otherwise, China will have to take strong countermeasures and the United States must face all the consequences.

Ma said: "The Chinese government is unshakable in its determination to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, to implement the 'one country, two systems' principle, and to oppose external forces in interfering in Hong Kong's affairs," adding that any attempt to undermine the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and to hinder China's development will end in failure and ultimately lift the rock only to drop on its own feet.