line for China’s leadership, and B

The ongoing Nike Air Max 90 Femme protests can be Nike Air Max 720 Femme traced back to March when thousands marched against a proposed bill that would allow Hong Kong to extradite people to Nike Air Max TN Femme mainland China. Although the former British colony has been part of the country since 1997, it’s designated as a Chinese “special Adidas Superstar Damen administrative region” and has been allowed a degree of autonomy in legal and financial matters. That arrangement has been known as “Nike Air Max 97 Femme one country, two systems” and it guides Hong Kong’s constitutionally enshrined mandate that the city will maintain its “previous capitalist Nike Air Max 1 Dames system” for 50 Nike Air Max 1 Womens years after it officially rejoined China.Mind your own business and stay out of Hong Kong affairs.

Given that background, many in Hong Kong said the Nike Air Max 270 Donne proposed extradition law would erode their city’s autonomy. Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, eventually announced the government would indefinitely halt Adidas Gazelle Mujer the Adidas ZX 850 Mujer bill, but protests continued as demonstrators called for it to be officially withdrawn and for an investigation into police Nike Air Max 270 Femme actions. As hundreds of thousands, by some counts, have continued to take to the streets, the messages have increasingly become Nike Air Max 95 Dames about democracy, autonomy and even independence.That’s been a red line for China’s leadership, and Beijing mouthpieces and officials Nike Internationalist Femme have repeatedly emphasized that Hong Kong’s relationship with the rest of the country is not up for discussion. And that’s the topic now Nike Air Max 2017 Donne inducing the Foreign Nike Air Max 2017 Femme Ministry’s criticisms of U.S. officials.

“We solemnly remind you this plain truth: Hong Kong affairs are entirely China’s internal affairs, and you www.jeremyleon.fr are neither entitled nor qualified to wantonly comment on them,” Hua said Tuesday. “Mind your own business and stay out of Hong Kong affairs.”The Nike Air Max TN MujerDemocratic leader reiterated earlier calls for the White House “to suspend future sales of munitions and crowd control equipment Nike Air Presto Femme to the Hong Kong police force,” saying that “Democrats and Republicans in Congress stand united with the people of Hong Kong Nike Air Pegasus 83 Femme in demanding the hopeful, free and democratic future that is their right.”In recent Twitter posts, Pelosi said she’s alarmed to see the Adidas ZX Flux Donne local police “intensify their use of force against the protesters and label them violent criminals,” and she urged Lam “to meet with protest leaders to listen and Nike Air VaporMax Dames act on their legitimate grievances including withdrawing the extradition bill, ending police violence & granting universal suffrage.”