Hong Kong will suspend some legal cooperation with US in tit-for-tat response to Washington

Hong Kong will suspend an agreement on mutual legal assistance with the United States, China's foreign ministry said, in a tit-for-tat response to Washington ending some agreements with Hong Kong.

"China urges the US to immediately correct its mistakes," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news briefing on Thursday as he announced the suspension of the agreement on legal assistance. The agreement, signed in 1997 before Britain returned Hong Kong to China, specified that the US and Hong Kong governments would help each other in criminal matters such as transferring people in custody or searching and confiscating proceeds of crime.

The US State Department said earlier the three agreements the US ended covered "the surrender of fugitive offenders, the transfer of sentenced persons, and reciprocal tax exemptions on income derived from the international operation of ships".The relationship between China and the US has been strained by differences over trade, the South China Sea and China's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.against the former British colony.

WWIII just around the corner. As a species we never learn.

Now the likes of Edward Snowden wouldn't have to leave HK for Russia any more

Great, then the same old same old.

Hong Kong doesn't exist anymore the communist party of China calls the shots there now the freedom it once enjoyed is nothing but a memory for its citizens

Blow the suckers up. China is a bully

What petty bullshit in the midst of a world crisis, grow up world leaders

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