Harbouring Hong Kong ‘rioters’ will harm Taiwan, China says, East Asia News & Top Stories

https://str.sg/JWsd Copy BEIJING (REUTERS) – Offering protection to “rioters” from Hong Kong will only harm Taiwan’s people and is an interference in the Chinese-ruled city’s affairs, China’s government said, denouncing plans by Taiwan to help Hong Kongers who decide to flee to the island. In a statement late on Friday (June 19), China’s policy-making Taiwan Affairs Office said the plan by the “Democratic Progressive Party authority” – China’s standard way of referring to Taiwan’s government – was a political plot to meddle in Hong Kong affairs and sabotage its stability and prosperity. “Providing shelter for and taking onto the island…