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China’s ambassador warns Belgian lawmakers as they debate resolutions on Hong Kong

·         Ambassador Cao Zhongming, expressing ‘serious concern’, complains that the draft resolutions ‘distorted and smeared the Hong Kong national security law’

·         One lawmaker accuses China of ‘trying to prevent … parliamentarians from adopting any kind of stance on the human rights situation in Hong Kong’

Cao Zhongming, the Chinese ambassador to Belgium, has warned local lawmakers that draft resolutions condemning the national security law imposed on Hong Kong “interfered in China’s internal affairs”. China’s ambassador to Belgium has been accused of trying to hinder the country’s democratic processes, after he sent a warning letter to local lawmakers who are considering punitive action over the sweeping national security law imposed on Hong Kong.

Cao Zhongming, in a letter seen by the South China Morning Post, said that the draft resolutions “distorted and smeared the Hong Kong national security law, and interfered in China’s internal affairs”.

“We express our serious concern about this,” Cao wrote in a letter to Els Van Hoof, the head of Belgium’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee, adding that he had “talked to you on several occasions” about China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong. The letter was first reported by local Belgian media.