US lawmakers call for Hong Kong trade offices to be closed, as Beijing ministry slams ‘political grandstanding’

US lawmakers call for Hong Kong trade offices to be closed, as Beijing ministry slams ‘political grandstanding’

China’s foreign ministry in Hong Kong has condemned US lawmakers’ calls for Washington to strip the city’s trade offices of their privileges, slamming the move as evidence of “deep-seated ideological bias.” The US Congress. File photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Commissioner’s Office of the Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong’s comments in a Saturday statement came days after US bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced a bill that asks the president to consider …