Hong Kong Protester Beaten Up at Chinese Consulate in UK; Calls To Investigate Incident Spark to What Appears as Democracy Demonstration

A demonstrator was allegedly attacked yesterday on the grounds of the Chinese embassy, prompting calls from British legislators for the government to urgently investigate.

After what seemed to be a pro-Hong Kong democracy demonstration in Manchester, police opened an investigation. A protester may be seen being taken through the doors of the Rusholme PRC Consulate General on video footage.

Hong Kong Protest Erupts Outside Chinese Consulate

While a police officer tries to remove the attackers from the victim, the man is knocked to the ground and attacked by at least five males.

In response to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, where President Xi Jinping is generally anticipated to announce another five years in power, pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong reportedly organized a nonviolent demonstration in front of the Consulate.

The footage, according to Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith, is very alarming, and he urged Home Secretary Suella Braverman to look into this immediately. He said to The Daily Telegraph, "I believe the police are probably concerned about a diplomatic issue and are eternally conflicted like everything else. For goodness sake, this is taking place on British territory."

The British officers tried to take the protester away but seemed hesitant to enter the Chinese consulate itself. Contrary to embassies, consulates are still subject to the host nation's laws, but they frequently enjoy additional benefits like legal immunity. The shadow minister for Asia and the Pacific and Hornsey and Wood Green Labour MP Catherine West said she would urgently bring up the matter in parliament and urged the Home and Foreign Secretaries to look into it.

The report was released as Xi Jinping threatened to use force to reclaim Taiwan as he opened the 20th CCP meeting on Sunday. After lifting term limitations put in place by his predecessors to restrain the power of the CCP chairman, the Chinese leader is poised to solidify his position as the nation's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, as per Daily Mail.

Xi Jinping Refuses to Unify With Taiwan

According to Smith, the Chinese ambassador should issue a formal apology, and those responsible should be deported back to China. As the Communist Party convention got underway in Beijing, the protesters were out in force. About China's repression of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, President Xi Jinping, who is expected to win a third term in office, claimed to have transformed the situation there from chaos to governance.

With the assistance of other protestors, the police made a valiant effort to stop the men from carrying the protesters through the gates. The crowd was furious when it was all over and the man was back outside.

The men from the consulate were being yelled at and angry remarks were also being made to the police. They claimed that more action by the police was necessary. Since this was a diplomatic affair, they found themselves in a challenging situation, BBC reported.

Xi Jinping stressed national security during his speech at the Communist Party conference in China, where he is generally anticipated to win a third term in office. He did so by bringing it up a record-breaking 89 times. The third leadership term, which follows the removal of the two-term limit for Chinese presidents, is unusual in modern history.

The limit was implemented in response to Mao Zedong's atrocities, whose unfettered authority resulted in the famine and political bloodshed of millions of people. The 69-year-old Xi is now in line to surpass Mao as the most powerful Chinese leader, and he used his speech in Beijing to reject Taiwan's independence, according to The Sun.