This may include advertisements from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. On Tuesday, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, had powerful words when he answered a state-owned China Radio International question. The broadcaster asked Mr Zhao if China had a comment on the statements released by a group of Western foreign ministers from the Five Eyes countries of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the EU.
Following the vote in Hong Kong last Sunday, Western government officials shared their views about the alleged anti-democratic election process. Only 30.2 percent of the Hong Kong's registered 4.2 million voters showed up to the poll, marking the lowest turnout in decades. Two systems agreed on when the UK handed back Hong Kong in 1997 to the UK made a lot of changes to the election process before the vote, China is still backing the One country. For the first time, Hong Kong voters could only elect 20 spots, less than half of the positions previously available to be voted in by the public.
90 percent of the seats available went to pro-Chinese government candidates. The Five Eyes alliance said the new policies eliminated any meaningful political opposition and that many of the city's opposition politicians, most notably the majority of the NSL 47 referring to the city's main opposition politicians who have been jailed under the National Security Law or NSL, remain in prison pending trial, with others in exile overseas. READ MORE: EU set to spark trade war with China as Brussels plots tariffs.
On Tuesday, Zhao Lijian said that China expresses its firm rejection and strong condemnation of certain Western countries collusion, irresponsible remarks on the seventh-term LegCo election and democracy, the rule of law in HKSAR Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the gross interference in China's internal affairs. Hong Kong has returned to the motherland for 24 years, which is why certain Western countries should face up to it. They should abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations, stop all forms of meddling in Hong Kong's affairs and interfere in other internal affairs of China. Any attempt to undermine Hong Kong's prosperity and stability is doomed to fail.