This Nov 17, 2016 photo shows 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 (HKSAR) in Central. (PARKER ZHENG / CHINA DAILY)

The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner’s Office in Hong Kong on Sunday strongly condemned a recent report by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs‎ (NDI), saying that it had arbitrarily skewed the facts about unrest in the city last year.

A spokesperson of the office emphasized that NDI has no credibility at all, and is internationally notorious for fact-distortion, rumor-mongering and finger-pointing at internal affairs of other countries and regions based on entrenched bias under the pretext of “democracy” and “human rights”.  

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The report concocted, another interference in Hong Kong affairs, is the latest stark evidence of its misdeeds, said the spokesperson. 

It (NDI report) whitewashed the outrageous extremist violence, but heaped accusations on the Hong Kong police who enforced the law dutifully with great restraint.

Spokesperson, Commissioner’s office, HKSAR 

“It whitewashed the outrageous extremist violence, but heaped accusations on the Hong Kong police who enforced the law dutifully with great restraint.” 

While it glorified the criminal acts of the opposition and extremists, who incited conflict and resorted to violence with a “burn with us” mentality, as a “fight over democratization”, it mentioned nothing about the severe damage such extremist violence did to law and order and the “One Country, Two Systems” principle, said the spokesperson. 

It instead smeared the just efforts of the central government and the HKSAR government to uphold the rule of law and the red line of “One Country, Two Systems”, the spokesperson pointed out.  

“As if its assault on Hong Kong is not enough, the organization also instigated other countries to jointly meddle with Hong Kong affairs and impose sanctions on the city via means like the “Hong Kong human rights democracy act”,” the spokesperson said, emphasizing that such “heinous intention” deserves the strongest condemnation. 

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“It is exactly because such foreign forces have long colluded with local anti-China troublemakers to interfere in Hong Kong affairs, confound right with wrong and provoke confrontation, that the rule of law in Hong Kong has been undermined and society plunged into chaos.” 

“They should be condemned by all Chinese people, including our Hong Kong compatriots, and will definitely pay the price for what they have done,” said the spokesperson.