"The Chinese government has very firmly and clearly stated its position. Hong Kong affairs are China's internal affairs," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of talks at the State Department.
"All countries should respect China's sovereignty and this is a basic principle of governing international relations," Wang said sternly. "I believe for any country, for any society, no one would allow those illegal acts that violate public order. That's the situation in the United States and that's the same situation in Hong Kong."
Kerry however renewed US calls for restraint by the Hong Kong authorities in tackling the protests with huge crowds gathering on Wednesday in defiant mood on China's National Day. "As China knows, we support universal suffrage in Hong Kong, accordant with the Basic Law," Kerry told reporters, standing alongside Wang.
"We believe in an open society with the highest possible degree of autonomy and governed by rule of law is essential for Hong Kong's stability and prosperity," Kerry said. "And we have high hopes that the Hong Kong authorities will exercise restraint and respect the protesters right to express their views peacefully."
Beijing is grappling with one of the biggest challenges to its rule over the city, triggered after it restricted who can run as the commercial hub's next chief executive.
Wang threw Beijing's support behind the Hong Kong authorities, saying that they had the "capability to properly handle the current situation in accordance with the law."
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Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Before Their Meeting (U.S. State Department)...
ReplyDeleteJohn Kerry
Secretary of State
Ben Franklin Room
Washington, DC
October 1, 2014
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SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my distinct pleasure to welcome His Excellency, the foreign minister of China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi. I met with the foreign minister in July in Beijing for a very productive Strategic & Economic Dialogue. We spent two days together and President Xi opened up that meeting and closed the meeting. And we are very grateful for China’s significant commitment to that dialogue. And in addition, we had useful conversations in August during my trip to Burma for the ASEAN Regional Forum, and we had a chance to briefly talk in New York. Knowing that we were going to be meeting here, we held back on the length and breadth of that conversation.
But I’m very pleased that he has taken time to visit us here in Washington on the occasion of China’s National Day, and we congratulate you on that and welcome you here. And I’m pleased he’s taken time to come here and strengthen our relationship as part of the ongoing dialogue between us.
I want to emphasize that the United States welcomes the rise of a peaceful, prosperous, and stable China, and one that plays a responsible role in Asia and the world, and contributes to upholding the existing rules and the norms on economic and security issues. I take note that China is stepping up and contributing to this challenge of Ebola, and we are appreciative for China’s willingness to put both equipment and personnel on the line in order to help deal with this. We view that in very positive terms with respect to China’s important role in global leadership......................http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/232419.htm
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ReplyDeleteThe top US and Chinese diplomats publicly aired differences on Wednesday over the protests in Hong Kong, where students want democratic changes to the electoral system.
Secretary of State John Kerry met at the State Department with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi as the standoff between students and authorities intensified in the Chinese territory — the stiffest challenge yet to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997.
The protesters oppose Beijing's decision in August that all candidates in an inaugural 2017 election for the territory's top post must be approved by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing local elites. Tens of thousands of people have rallied against that decision in Hong Kong's streets since late last week......................http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/US-China-air-differences-over-Hong-Kong-protests/articleshow/44041030.cms
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ReplyDeleteLa tension restait vive à Hong Kong, vendredi, malgré l’accord conclu la veille entre les autorités locales et les étudiants pour ouvrir un dialogue. Pékin a prévenu que les revendications des manifestants étaient "vouées à l'échec".
Les principales artères de Hong-Kong étaient toujours bloquées, vendredi 3 octobre. Dans la matinée, des militants pro-démocratie se sont heurtés à la police devant le siège du pouvoir local, malgré l'accord conclu la veille entre les autorités et les étudiants pour ouvrir un dialogue.
La plupart des manifestants, rassemblés en masse dans la nuit devant les bâtiments abritant le siège du conseil législatif et l'exécutif local, étaient rentrés chez eux mais une centaine de protestataires déterminés restaient en place. Ils réclament l'instauration d'un suffrage universel plein et entier ainsi que la démission du chef de l'exécutif local, Leung Chun-ying, qu'ils considèrent comme la marionnette de Pékin..............http://www.france24.com/fr/20141003-hong-kong-mouvement-pro-democratie-ouverture-dialogue-chine-pekin-manifestations/
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