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There's quite a few articles where China has directly blamed the British government of interference. We have done nothing wrong from what I can see. The USA has, today, made a larger interference than anything we've done by holding a White House press conference on the subject of Hong Kong.

The UK signed a treaty that it, and China, would uphold the two systems approach (amongst other assurances) for HK. Since the UK is a signatory to this treaty we are at least allowed to make comments on the subject. China is acting as though this treaty does not exist by suggesting we are interfering.

That said, I read this morning that our deputy PM Nick Clegg has been tweeting on the HK protests. He needs to shut up. Twitter is not the way for a UK government to make its feelings known.




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