HONG KONG - The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council on Monday hit out at a joint statement by foreign politicians on recent arrests made under the National Security Law for Hong Kong.

The office’s spokesperson, in a statement, said the slandering remarks by the politicians exposed their ulterior motive of supporting some troublemakers to use the Legislative Council election to level subversive attacks on China and endanger China’s national security.

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The office’s statement came after the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, on Sunday jointly criticized the arrests of 55 activists by Hong Kong Police Force last week. 

The slandering remarks by some foreign politicians exposed their ulterior motive of supporting some troublemakers to use the Legislative Council election to level subversive attacks on China and endanger China’s national security, said a spokesman for the Macao Affairs Office

The self-organized ballot, part of a long-term plan to take down the whole society, aimed at helping the opposition camp win over 35 seats in the city’s 70-strong legislature, giving them an absolute majority to veto the government’s financial budget indiscriminately and eventually paralyze the government, according to Hong Kong police after making the arrests.  

These acts by the activists, which allegedly violate the NSL, are futile and illegal and far from “freedom of speech or democratic rights”, the spokesperson said. 

The foreign politicians not only made groundless accusations to discredit the National Security Law, but also blatantly interfered with Hong Kong’s affairs by meddling in the police operation to arrest these troublemakers under the NSL, the spokesperson stressed. 

The NSL has proven to be effective in safeguarding national security, stabilizing Hong Kong, maintaining the prosperity of the city and protecting the fundamental rights of residents in the city, the spokesperson added. 

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In fact, the recent violent incident at Capitol Hill in Washington, in the United States has made it even clearer to the world that these politicians are adopting double standards when they purportedly framed these allegedly subversive acts by the 55 activists as seeking democracy or calling these activists freedom fighters, the spokesperson added.