State Department spokesman Price at the 5th briefing
“The Hong Kong election system reorganization violates the basic law”
Voices of condemnation despite the Uighur repression
Leaders including President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang are admitted at the Beijing People’s Congress, where the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (Non-in University), China’s top legislative body, opened on the 5th. Beijing = Yonhap News
When the Chinese government formalized a move to reform the Hong Kong electoral system at both meetings, Joe Biden’s US administration criticized it strongly, calling it an “attack on democracy.”
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on the 5th (local time) that the move was a direct attack on Hong Kong’s autonomy, freedom and democratic process, and demanded that it be reversed. “If this measure is implemented, Hong Kong’s democratic system will be greatly damaged,” said Price, adding that he condemned China’s continued attack on Hong Kong’s democratic system. “This measure goes head-to-head against the Hong Kong Framework Act that Hong Kong elections should be conducted in a universal suffrage,” he said. “We urge China to uphold its international obligations and promises and continue to act in accordance with the Hong Kong Framework Act.” Said.
Earlier, at the 4th Annual Meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress, which opened on the 5th, China emphasized the principle of’Hong Kong ruled by patriots’ and formalized the necessity of reorganizing the election system in Hong Kong. Specifically, it is reported that the government is promoting the promotion of increasing the number of pro-Chinese powers in the Hong Kong administrative ministers electoral group and selecting 30 legislative members from the electoral group. Reuters predicted that “this measure, which will be approved at the one-week session, will further weaken the democratic opposition party that has been exterminated after China’s enforcement of the Hong Kong National Security Act following the anti-government protests that struck Hong Kong in 2019.”
Meanwhile, the State Department voiced condemnation of the suppression of the Islamic minority in China, especially the Uighurs. Spokesman Price said the United States is trying to mobilize allies and partners to take action in a single voice condemning China’s abuse of Muslims in China’s Xinjiang and its repression in Hong Kong.
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