No tolerating challenge to bottom line on HK

The vandalizing of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region following a demonstration against the extradition law amendment on Sunday was a blatant challenge to the central government's authority.

Scores of radical protesters who refused to stop at the police-designated destination for the march amassed outside the liaison office in Western District. They defaced the national emblem and sprayed anti-China slogans on the building's facade. Some even tried to break into the premises.

Since the liaison office represents the central government, the aim of such actions was crystal clear - to undermine the central government's authority in the SAR. The SAR government rightly and swiftly condemned the acts as "absolutely unacceptable", and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council expressed its firm support for the SAR government and police to bring the perpetrators to justice.