Top US senator's 'slander sends wrong signal to violent radicals'

Official: Washington ignoring facts, defaming central, SAR governments

A spokesperson for the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region denounced on Tuesday remarks made by US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "as groundless slander that sends a terribly wrong signal to violent radicals".

It was reported that McConnell said on Monday that any violent crackdown on protests in Hong Kong would be "completely unacceptable". He wrote in a tweet that "the people of Hong Kong are bravely standing up to the Chinese Communist Party as Beijing tries to encroach on their autonomy and freedom".