It takes two hands to clap.

Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

It takes two hands to clap.

A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange.