Boris Johnson, who could be Britain’s prime minister by the end of the month, said on Wednesday, he is supporting the people of Hong Kong every inch of the way and cautioned China that the “one country, two systems” should not be cast aside.
Britain has repeatedly pressed China to honor its commitments to protect freedoms in Hong Kong after police fired tear gas to disperse protesters rallying in the former British colony against a now-suspended extradition bill.
Hong Kong has been rocked in recent weeks by the largest protests in China since crowds demonstrated against the bloody suppression of pro-democracy activists in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
Johnson said “The people of Hong Kong are perfectly within their rights to be very skeptical, very anxious about proposals for extradition to the mainland that could be politically motivated, that could be arbitrary and could infringe their human rights,”
