UK should stop interfering in Hong Kong and China's internal affairs: Foreign ministry
Hong Kong extradition
China's Foreign Ministry denounced the UK for its "interference" in Hong Kong affairs on Wednesday after the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told parliament that London would ban sales of tear gas to Hong Kong and called for an independent probe into the recent violence.
Speaking at anews conference in Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China demands "the UK immediately stop interference of any kind in Hong Kong and China's internal affairs."
When asked about protests earlier on Wednesday outside major foreign consulates in Hong Kong calling on leaders at the upcoming G20 summit to support the scrapping of a controversial extradition bill, Geng said "G20 will not discuss Hong Kong issues. China will certainly not agree to G20 discussing Hong Kong affairs. This is entirely China's internal affair."
Responding to China, Britain's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it would continue to defend its position over Hong Kong.
The foreign ministry said, "The Joint Declaration is a legally binding treaty between the UK and China that remains as valid today as it was when it was signed and ratified over 30 years ago."
"As a co-signatory, the UK government will continue to defend our position.”
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which laid out how Britain would end its rule over Hong Kong before it was handed back to China in 1997, still applied.
The declaration guaranteed Hong Kong's rights and freedoms
Millions of people in Hong Kong have protested in recent weeks against theextradition bill that would have allowed individuals, including foreigners, to be extradited to mainland China to face trial.
Hong Kong's Beijing-appointed leader Carrie Lam, eventually caved in after some of the worst violence seen in decades on the city's streets, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
But Lam stopped short of protesters' demands to scrap the bill altogether, saying it would be suspended indefinitely.