London (AFP) – Speaking ahead of the 25th anniversary of Britain’s transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that Beijing ‘has been failing to comply with its obligations’ to the territory under the ‘one country, two systems’ pledge which it made in 1997. Johnson says this threatens ‘the rights and freedoms of Hong Kongers, and the continued progress and prosperity of their home’, but that Britain will do ‘all it can to hold China to its commitments’.
