The boss of the Hong Kong office of China’s foreign ministry, Cui Jianchun, has instructed Julie Eadeh, the new U.S. Consul General in the downtrodden city, on things she may not do, like interact with persons whom Beijing disfavors (Associated Press, October 2, 2025).
Eadeh, who took up the new role in August, appeared to have angered Beijing for reportedly inviting pro-democracy figures to events. Beijing’s office overseeing Hong Kong affairs reposted articles from pro-Beijing media outlets that criticized her moves.
Cui laid out “four don’ts” for Eadeh, asking her not to meet people she “shouldn’t meet with,” not to collude with “anti-China forces,” not to assist or fund activities that might undermine the city’s stability and not to interfere with national security cases in Hong Kong.
Cui “urged Eadeh to abide by fundamental norms governing international relations including non-interference in domestic affairs and make a clean break with anti-China forces,” the statement said.
My advice for Julie Eadeh: do meet with people that the CCP says she “shouldn’t meet with,” do collude with “anti-China forces,” do assist activities that might undermine the stability of the CCP tyranny and do interfere with “national security cases in Hong Kong.”
By “interfere” the Party means “say anything critical about.”
One item on Eadeh’s resume that annoys Cui (shown above) and his masters is her meeting with pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law back in 2019, when Hong Kong was roiled by massive protests against the mainland government.
Nathan Law
Singapore recently refused entry to Law, a former Hong Kong legislator who now lives in the United Kingdom and is wanted by Hong Kong authorities. Singapore had approved Law’s visa a few weeks earlier.
The Singapore government has said that it “takes a clear and strong stand against the importation of politics of other countries into Singapore.” But in booting Law, it is practicing politics imported from the People’s Republic of China. And, notes the BBC, not for the first time: “In 2019, the city-state fined a Singaporean activist for holding an online forum several years earlier that featured prominent activist Joshua Wong speaking in a teleconference call.”
Perhaps Nathan Law is lucky that the Singapore government did not act to forcibly return him to Hong Kong.
Pro-CCP hack Grenville Cross, a British barrister who was director of public prosecutions in Hong Kong from 1997 to 2009 and is today a fashioner of propaganda for Party outlet China Daily, has just published an item there declaring that Singapore’s judgment “is invariably sound,” that “no self-respecting country should give Law the time of day,” and other equally persuasive doctrines.
