US officials urged to stop meddling in HK affairs

China asked the United States on Thursday to clarify media reports about a US official's meeting with major "Hong Kong independence" activists, urging it to stop sending "wrong signals" to the violent lawbreakers in the country's special administrative region.

The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region urgently summoned a senior official at the US Consulate General, urging US officials to immediately make a clean break from anti-China forces who stir up trouble in Hong Kong, to refrain from meddling in Hong Kong affairs and to avoid going further down the wrong path, according to a statement on the office's website.

Julie Eadeh, a political counselor at the US Consulate General in Hong Kong, was reported to have met Hong Kong separatist leaders in a hotel in Hong Kong on Tuesday. They include Joshua Wong Chi-fung, one of the leaders of the 2014 Occupy Movement.