By Chris Yeung
Three points from the Chinese central government’s first official response to the establishment of the Hong Kong National Party, the city’s first political party that advocates independence. In an interview with the official Xinhua news agency on Wednesday, a spokesman of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office made it clear, again, Beijing’s opposition against the advocacy. It was followed by another salvo by Liaison Office Director Zhang Xiaoming in an interview with the Phoenix TV on Thursday.
- Independence? Don’t even talk about it
Although Beijing leaders have moderated their rhetoric on Hong Kong during the “two sessions”, NPC and CPPCC plenums, in Beijing last month, they are quick to eliminate any illusion that there is room for leniency when it comes to the issue of independence in any form.
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