Beijing demands West 'stops meddling in HK'

A senior Chinese official urged the United States and some other Western countries on Thursday to stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs.

The US and some other countries have been mixing right and wrong, stirring up trouble during the recent violent incidents over the revision of an extradition amendment bill in Hong Kong, said Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.

They also arranged for senior officials to meet leading anti-China figures and supported the illegal activities of extreme, violent protesters with the aim of undermining the prosperity and security of Hong Kong, Yang said.