Boris Johnson and Antony Blinken point to dismantling of democratic rights as well as crackdowns on independent media and personal freedoms

UK and US leaders have criticised China’s erosion of freedoms and rights in Hong Kong, as the territory marks 25 years since its handover from Britain.

After Xi Jinping began his first visit to the city since 2017, British prime minister Boris Johnson and US secretary of state Antony Blinken said Beijing had failed to respect the “one country, two systems” arrangement agreed under the deal that ended British colonial rule in 1997.

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