State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus told “Bill Hemmer Reports” Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party is “breaking their word” by curbing the autonomy of Hong Kong.…
State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus told “Bill Hemmer Reports” Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party is “breaking their word” by curbing the autonomy of Hong Kong.
“This has been going on for a year now,” Ortagus told host Bill Hemmer.
“We saw the extradition law put in place in Hong Kong,” she added. “We saw thousands of protestors, for the past year, take to the streets. Those protests were sometimes violently put down. People were arbitrarily detained. We’ve seen the erosion of rule of law in Hong Kong.”
Shortly after China’s legislature endorsed a national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday, the United States, and governments of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement arguing the legislation would “curtail the Hong Kong people’s liberties.
