Beijing’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong has expressed “strong opposition” to what it saw as “political theatrics” from foreign consulates on the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Consulates representing the US, UK and the European Union put on “shoddy political theatrics” at their offices in an attempt to “create division, incite conflicts and maliciously vilify the image of China,” the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a statement on Tuesday night. Tuesday marked 35 years since the Tiananmen crackdown occurred on June 4, 1989, which …
