Military official slams attacks on govt body in HK as 'intolerable'

The violent attacks over the weekend in Hong Kong against the central government institution have challenged the principle of "one country, two systems" and are intolerable, the Ministry of National Defense said on Wednesday.

Speaking in Beijing, ministry spokesman Wu Qian said authorities have been following the situation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region closely and are paying particular attention to the siege of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong SAR - the central government's top representative institution in the city - that rapidly turned violent on Sunday.

The protests have challenged the central government's authority, the bottom line of the "one country, two systems" principle, and the actions are "absolutely intolerable", Wu said.