China on Tuesday deplored violence in Hong Kong that saw protesters ransack the ...
BEIJING - China on Tuesday deplored violence in Hong Kong that saw protesters ransack the city’s legislature, fuelling expectations it will take a tougher line on the territory, even as details of the scenes of vandalism went largely unreported on the mainland.
Beijing called the violence an “undisguised challenge” to the “one country, two systems” model under which Hong Kong was granted a high degree of autonomy when it was returned to China in 1997. The backlash comes amid growing resentment over what many in Hong Kong see as declining freedoms as China tightens its grip over the territory under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, who warned two years ago that Beijing would not tolerate any challenge to its authority in Hong Kong.
“Both development programs serve as practical platforms for Hong Kong to generate more growth momentum that can be translated into practical benefits for local residents.”Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan, an associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a former Hong Kong lawmaker for the pro-democracy Civic Party, expects Beijing to back Hong Kong to crack down even further.
“Like the Umbrella Movement, the protest cannot keep up the intensity forever, especially when the option of letting the police put them down is readily available,” he said, referring to the pro-democracy “Occupy Central” movement that lasted 79 days in 2014 before police cleared protesters. One Beijing-based Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was significant that Xi himself had not come out and offered public support for Hong Kong’s embattled leader yet, keeping a low profile while the territory convulses.China has blamed the “black hand” influence of foreign governments, especially the United States and Britain, for the unrest in Hong Kong, a view that one Chinese official told Reuters was reinforced by the destruction in the legislature.
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