britain has summoned china's ambassador
in london to its foreign ministry
to register its deep concern at
beijing's action over hong kong
british foreign secretary dominic raab
says china is breaching its legally
binding treaty over hong kong
and breaking promises over the
territory's autonomy
mr raab hit out at beijing as
pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong
quit the legislature the 15 opposition
members resigned in protest
against the dismissal of four of their
colleagues well china says the
resignations are a blatant
challenge to its authority so
this is what the chairman of the
democratic party wu chi
wai had to say the separation of power
is a very con constitutional power
that hong kong people can enjoy to
check and balance the government act but
today two days after
we lost um our track and balance power
and all the power constitutional powers
in hong kong
is all rested in the chief executive's
head
and we all know that to achieve exactly
in hong kong
because of the constitutional
arrangement is basically
a puppet coming from the central
government so he said
today and today's after it is the end of
one country system
well the chinese foreign ministry
responded to their resignations and also
warned the u.s and the uk not to
intervene
no country will ignore or said either
dubai
of the uh the
case that public servants including
lawmakers
violate their oath
and betray the country the western
politicians wanting acquisitions on
china fully reveal their double standard
we urge the relevant individuals to
abide by the international law and basic
norms governing international relations
and
stop in any way interfering in china's
internal affairs including hong kong
affairs
any of the attempt to pressure china or
undermine china's sovereignty security
and development interests will not
succeed
well in the last hour foreign office
minister nigel adams
accused china of breaching the treaty in
the uk parliament
it is my unfortunate duty to report to
this house
our judgment that this decision breaches
the legally binding
sino-british joint declaration it
breaches both china's commitment
that hong kong will enjoy a high degree
of autonomy
and the right to freedom of speech
guaranteed under paragraph three of the
declaration
well eddie chu is a former legislator
who quit
the legislative council just over a
month ago i asked him for his reaction
to the expulsions by carrie lam
i think it it shocked me
that beijing disqualified uh
my four colleagues from the democratic
camp because
uh just two months ago uh when they
decided to postpone
the legislative council election and
extend
uh the current term for one year they
allowed
these four democratic camp legislators
to
stay so that is
an abrupt change of mine from beijing
and and this also shocked me because
uh these four legislators are actually
from the moderate camp sorry from the
moderate wing
of the democratic camp they do not
support either
self-determination or independence of
hong kong so they
they did nothing in violation of the
national security law and other laws so
uh i think uh is because
uh beijing decided to
disqualify the moderate wing that the
whole camp
feels that there is no future for them
to stay in the institution that's why
they collectively resign today
um after this resignation how though
is the legislative council going to
actually be able to represent the people
of hong kong given
that these 15 opposition members have
now quit
it's not going to represent the hong
kong people anymore
actually we are helping
semi democratic system within the
council
but what beijing's cessation
did to us is it
took away even this 50 of democracy
and i don't think hong kong people
will have any hope of a legislative
legislature controlled totally
by probating politicians with beijing's
behind them
we've had news from the uk foreign
secretary who
basically has spoken out against the
disqualification
of these opposition mps how important is
it
to you to have this support from the uk
government
well you know um our reality is
we can no longer protest on the street
and and right now we think we can no
longer run
in elections to represent hong kong
people so the things
uh left is international concern but
unfortunately um
it is in violation of the national
security law
to ask directly for
sanctions for sanctions against china
that's ex-hong kong legislator eddie chu
speaking to me there