Hong Kong nonetheless faces “complicated and extreme” exterior and inner nationwide safety threats that it needs to be vigilant about, whereas leveraging its distinctive strengths to spice up connectivity with the world and combine with the nation, a senior Beijing official has stated.
Setting out a overview of town’s latest chaotic previous, Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Workplace, on Saturday laid down instructions for Hong Kong which he stated had entered a brand new “chapter” of improvement after the implementation of the nationwide safety legislation 5 years in the past.
The native authorities ought to enhance its governance, react to tendencies in a well timed method and remedy deep-seated conflicts in society, whereas town must also stay vigilant over persistent nationwide safety threats, he confused.
“One mustn’t assume that every one is nicely in Hong Kong. We should always always remember concerning the ache when the injuries are healed,” Xia stated, warning that there have been nonetheless individuals who have been decided to smear the laws or threaten authorities with new types of “smooth resistance”.
“The scenario dealing with Hong Kong in sustaining nationwide safety stays complicated and extreme,” Xia added.
“[The city] ought to preserve and consolidate its hard-earned stability by means of firmly greedy the sensible necessities of sustaining nationwide safety underneath the ‘one nation, two techniques’ precept.”