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WASHINGTON - A U.S. State Department spokeswoman on Thursday called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing the photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
The denunciation was unusually sharp and came as tensions between Washington and Beijing surge over an expanding trade war and military rivalry in the western Pacific, among other disputes.
The Hong Kong office of China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday asked the United States to explain reports in Communist Party-controlled media that its diplomats are in contact with student leaders of protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for nine weeks.
Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao published a photograph of a U.S. diplomat, who it identified as Julie Eadeh of the consulate's political section, talking with student leaders in the lobby of a luxury hotel.
The photograph appeared under the headline "Foreign Forces Intervene".
"I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told a briefing later on Thursday.
"That is not how a responsible nation would behave."
Ortagus did not name the diplomat, or elaborate further on what kinds of private information or children's details were disclosed.
CCTV, the state-run broadcaster, called the U.S. diplomat "the behind-the-scenes black hand creating chaos in Hong Kong," according to the New York Times, employing the term used against those who led the anti-government protests leading up to the Tiananmen massacre in 1989.
China has accused foreign powers, particularly the United States, of fomenting the demonstrations in Hong Kong.
The protests, in which police have fired teargas and rubber bullets, began over a draft law that would have allowed the extradition of suspects to mainland courts. They have since grown into a broader backlash against the leaders of the former British colony and their political masters in Beijing.
Ortagus said it was the job of U.S. diplomats and those from other countries to meet with different people, including opposition leaders.
"This is not only what American diplomats do. This is what other countries’ diplomats do," she said.
- Reuters
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Hong Kong youth are not stupid. They are much much more cleverer than Chinese Communist party member.
2019-08-10 14:21
You think American or British very sincere to help meh... they are the one who run away first when things go wrong and left this helpless HKies to die.. white people fart also smell good meh???
2019-08-10 17:10
Hongkongers need to see phycologist, mental clinic...Mostly, what happen shows emotional, mental problem. Then, only protest will stop. it has nothing to do with china beijing as punching bag for their insane, irrational behaviour. All must learn HOW TO LET GO, holding no grudges, forgiving for minor misunderstanding, to achieve happiness.
2019-08-10 19:26
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