US dismisses Beijing's tongue-lashing over Hong Kong controversy
by Joel Gehrke | June 14, 2019 06:48 PM
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s team needled China by urging Hong Kong not to pass a controversial extradition bill, just hours after similar comments provoked a tongue-lashing in Beijing.
“If passed, the ordinance would permit Chinese authorities to request the extradition of individuals to mainland China, and submit such individuals to China’s capricious judicial system,” a State Department representative told the Washington Examiner Friday afternoon.
That warning was sent in defiance of the communist regime, which summoned a top diplomat at the American embassy to the Chinese Foreign Ministry earlier Friday for a face-to-face complaint about “interference” in the dispute. U.S. lawmakers have been warning that the passage of the legislation, which provoked mass protests this week, could lead to a rewrite of the federal law that provides Hong Kong with special status for trade and economic purposes.
“China called on the United States ... to immediately stop all interference in Hong Kong’s affairs and stop taking action that would affect the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said following Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng’s meeting with Robert Forden, the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy.
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