Beijing’s top official in Hong Kong on Monday said China was facing its worst national security threats since the end of the cold war as he condemned some political groups in the city for “colluding with anti-China forces” by accepting invitations to travel abroad for secretive meetings.
“Some ill-intentioned countries want to check China’s development by leveraging Hong Kong, while some Hong Kong politicians and political groups collude with these anti-China forces by organising secretive meetings. Hong Kong’s former No 2 Anson Chan meets Mike Pence in WashingtonTheir visit included a meeting between Chan and US Vice-President Mike Pence and discussions with members of America’s National Security Council.
Wang condemned the movement as “a wound to the rule of law, to people’s livelihoods and to society in general”, and urged Hong Kong to learn a lesson from “the pain of losing security”. Story continuesSpeaking before Wang gave his speech, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the local government supported the symposium because national security was important and covered many aspects in people’s daily lives, but she lamented that Hongkongers had only a “vague understanding and weak awareness” of it for historical reasons and due to deficient education.
The annual forum is the second one organised by the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute and Hong Kong Vision, a think tank and the institute’s flagship research project, which is convened by the city’s former Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing. The aim is to promote public education on national security in Hong Kong.