China's Foreign Ministry said leading American officials are 'anxious' to 'instigate and see chaos' in Hong Kong.
A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry claimed Tuesday that recent comments from American lawmakers — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — demonstrate that Washington's real goal is to incite chaos in the city.
"By neglecting and distorting the truth, they whitewashed violent crimes as a struggle for human rights and freedom, and deliberately misinterpreted the work of Hong Kong police as violent repression when the police were only enforcing the law, fighting crimes and upholding social order," she said. Given that background, many in Hong Kong said the proposed extradition law would erode their city's autonomy. Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, eventually announced the government would indefinitely halt the bill, but protests continued as demonstrators called for it to be officially withdrawn and for an investigation into police actions.
The Democratic leader reiterated earlier calls for the White House "to suspend future sales of munitions and crowd control equipment to the Hong Kong police force," saying that "Democrats and Republicans in Congress stand united with the people of Hong Kong in demanding the hopeful, free and democratic future that is their right."
In a corresponding statement, the Senate leader said Beijing should seek to "emulate" Hong Kong and its freedoms — not "remake it in the image of the Chinese Communist Party." He characterized the violence as "increasingly brutal police tactics and pro-Mainland vigilantes ... drawing blood in an effort to intimidate Hong Kongers back into submission."
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