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Japan declines to join U.S., others in condemning China for Hong Kong law: Kyodo

Published 06/07/2020, 06:02 AM
Updated 06/07/2020, 06:15 AM
© Reuters. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has decided not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing officials from countries involved.

The United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia and Canada condemned China on May 28 for imposing a law that they said would threaten freedom and breach a 1984 Sino-British agreement on the autonomy of the former colony.

There was no immediate response to Reuters e-mail inquiries to Japan's foreign ministry and the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tokyo separately issued a statement May 28, the day China's parliament approved the national security legislation, saying the nation was "seriously concerned" about the move, which observers fear could endanger Hong Kong's special autonomy and freedoms.

Tokyo is in complicated position amid tension between China and the U.S. over the Hong Kong issue as Japan plans Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit, which was planned for early April but has been postponed because both have agreed to priorities to contain the virus outbreak.

© Reuters. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Latest comments

typical Japanese backstabbing :)
Hong Kong is part of China. UK & others were just aiming in dividing China. It has always been a Chinese land till UK invaded it and decided the opposite
lol.. I ask Hong Kong Chinese. The situation in Hong Kong is not what they say on Western media. Hong Kong police have been very restraint and gentle compared to US cops. George Floyd would have never happened in Hong Kong. I don't even remember the last time Hong Kong Chinese police have killed a civilian. it's decades ago probably! Hong Kong China is a safe city. no gun violence whatsoever. as to freedom and human rights?? Hong Kong China ranked 3rd in the global scale. just Google it "freest places in the world"!! protests and riots in Hong Kong are result of years of propaganda, Western meddling and funding anti Chinese groups, income inequality, high property prices and high living standards, lack of opportunities for the young generation etc etc.. causing frustration and anger towards the local Hong Kong China government. of course, UK and US and other Chinese adversaries fueling the flame.
they are all, not demons, let call them with the real name, narcistic character monsters, fascism is just an ideology of group of people, but culture of monstruous narcistic diplomacy of english culture is well know cancer ofthe human civilisation of all space civilisations, they are destroying not just people of the earth, not just the earth but the reality
let call them Mr. and Miss cutlures killers, human killers, civilisation killers, space and galaxy killers, and let imprison them, let imprison their culture, the time is not comming let bring the time, and let not talk to them, let not listen them, let boycot them, then let imprison them, then let they turn back all welth they tool away from all cultures in the past centuries, let them start working for us to financially pay off their support to cancerogenic rulle over the past four centuries
Western citizens had been brainwashed by the western anti-china media driven by the political interest to divide China.
Trump is a demon terrorising other for the same things happening in his country. Clean your house before you out to clean others.
they are all, not demons, let call them with the real name, narcistic character monsters, fascism is just an ideology of group of people, but culture of monstruous narcistic diplomacy of english culture is well know cancer ofthe human civilisation of all space civilisations, they are destroying not just people of the earth, not just the earth but the reality
let call them Mr. and Miss cutlures killers, human killers, civilisation killers, space and galaxy killers, and let imprison them, let imprison their culture, the time is not comming let bring the time, and let not talk to them, let not listen them, let boycot them, then let imprison them, then let they turn back all welth they tool away from all cultures in the past centuries, let them start working for us to financially pay off their support to cancerogenic rulle over the past four centuries
With good USA leadership, this would have been different. But with the untrustworthy Trump administration, nobody is going to support this.
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