China will not 'sit idly' and allow Hong Kong unrest to go on: State media

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council said on Sunday that the central government supports the Hong Kong police and judicial system

China’s central government won’t sit by and let the disruption in Hong Kong go on, according to a commentary by the Xinhua News Agency, which condemned the violence that’s wracked the financial hub for weeks and took aim at protesters whom it said tossed a Chinese national flag into the harbor.

“We must warn all the ugly forces that try to challenge the central authority and undermine the bottom line of the ‘one country, two systems’ principle,” the news agency said on Sunday. It added: “The central government will not sit idly by and let this situation continue,” while reiterating