After appeals from the Hong Kong protest movement for support from abroad, Hong Kong’s head of government Carrie Lam has warned the US „to interfere“. „It is extremely inappropriate for any country to interfere in Hong Kong affairs,“ Lam said today. On Sunday, many demonstrators in Hong Kong had moved to the US Consulate.
They demanded that the US Congress follow a recent proposal to explicitly support the protest movement in Hong Kong. The proposed law could undermine Hong Kong’s trading privileges with the US by providing regular controls on whether authorities respect Hong Kong’s special status. Lam said that any change in the economic relationship with Washington would jeopardize „common benefits“.
Hong Kong’s head of state also condemned the recent escalation of a peaceful mass rally. „The increasing and ongoing violence can not solve the problems that we have in Hong Kong,“ Lam said. With 14 weeks of protests, millions of Hong Kong residents are resisting circumcision of their greater civil liberties compared to mainland China. There were repeated violent clashes.
