Chinese language diplomats have despatched a cheeky message to Boris Johnson over the Authorities’s makes an attempt to tear up the Northern Eire Protocol.
It appeared on the official Twitter account of the Chinese language Embassy in Eire.
The account shared a Tweet by the PM referencing the twenty fifth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China.
The PM’s Tweet included a video of Mr Johnson and the phrases: “25 years in the past we made a promise to the individuals of Hong Kong. We intend to maintain it.”
The Chinese language Embassy in Eire retweeted the submit however added: "2 years in the past we made a promise to the Northern Eire Protocol. We're decided to interrupt it.”
That may be a reference to the Northern Eire Protocol Invoice, which seeks to override components of the UK-EU commerce deal agreed 18 months in the past.
MPs voted earlier this week to offer the Invoice a second studying.
It comes after the DUP stated it won't nominate ministers to permit a brand new Stormont Govt to be shaped till the UK takes actions on its considerations across the protocol, and the way it's impacting on Northern Eire.
Nevertheless the transfer by the UK has been branded as unlawful and a transparent breach of worldwide legislation.
Friday marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the Hong Kong handover - the formal passing of authority over the territory of the then colony from the UK to China. It ended 156 years of British rule within the former colony.
Underneath the "one nation two methods” phrases of the handover, Hong Kong is meant to be ruled in a method that provides it a excessive diploma of autonomy and protects freedom of speech and meeting, and different rights not present in mainland China.
However lately China has been criticised for growing its management of Hong Kong and enacting legal guidelines and reforms that stifle free speech and dissent.
Mr Johnson stated on Friday: "We're not giving up on Hong Kong.
"Twenty-five years in the past we made a promise to the territory and its individuals and we intend to maintain it, doing all we will to carry China to its commitments in order that Hong Kong is as soon as once more run by the individuals of Hong Kong, for the individuals of Hong Kong."