直逼奉天事件，中國公布美國外交官家庭個資

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AIT也約過喜樂島、柯文哲、韓國瑜。

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QUESTION: Good to see you.  The Chinese foreign ministry’s office in Hong Kong has issued a formal protest over a reported meeting between U.S. consular officials in the city and opposition figures.  The statement demanded the U.S. explain the purpose of the meeting and, quote, “immediately” cease interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs.  Do you have anything on that meeting and then reaction to the statement?

MS ORTAGUS: How did you characterize the first sentence?  Can you say that again?

QUESTION: It was the Chinese foreign ministry office in Hong Kong, I believe.

MS ORTAGUS: Uh-huh. But how – but what did you say that – they issued a – you said?  Read your first statement again.

QUESTION: A formal protest?

MS ORTAGUS: Yeah.  I don’t think that leaking an American diplomat’s private information, pictures, names of their children – I don’t think that that’s a formal protest.  That is what a thuggish regime would do.  That’s not how a responsible nation would behave.  Releasing any of that personal information of an American diplomat is completely unacceptable.  That’s not a protest.  That’s what a thuggish regime does, and it’s unacceptable.

QUESTION: Thank you.

MS ORTAGUS: Yeah.

QUESTION: Well, (inaudible) address the reason for the thuggishness, which is a meeting between a consular official and —

MS ORTAGUS: This is – this is what – sure, I understand the question.  This is what American diplomats do every single day around the world.  American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China.  I mean, this literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.  So our diplomat was doing her job and we commend her for her work.

QUESTION: So you don’t buy the Chinese argument that because Hong Kong is part of China, even though it’s run differently, that this is interference in their internal affairs?

MS ORTAGUS: This is what not only American diplomats do, this is what other countries’ diplomats do.

QUESTION: Right.  The Secretary met with opposition people in Australia, did he not?

MS ORTAGUS: He did.  In Australia?

QUESTION: Or in Thailand, or on his recent trip?  No?

MS ORTAGUS: I was in almost every meeting and I don’t recall that happening.

QUESTION: Okay.

MS ORTAGUS: I can double-check to make sure I didn’t miss something, but I don’t – I was not in a meeting with opposition figures.

駐港官員見黃之鋒後遭洩個資 美國務院怒批中國流氓政權    自由 20190809

香港泛民主派政黨「香港眾志」秘書長黃之鋒及常委羅冠聰，傳出造訪美國駐港領事館官員，親中媒體以「美亂港幕後黑手疑曝光」形容此會，並披露該外交官個資，美方對此相當不滿，痛批中國是流氓政權。

《路透》報導，美國國務院發言人歐塔加斯（Morgan Ortagus）表示，中國暴露與香港泛民主派領袖見面的美國外交官個人資料、家庭成員資訊，是流氓政權行徑。中國外交部週四要求美國對於外交官員與黃之鋒等人見面一事做出澄清。

報導指出，香港大公報刊出了美國外交官的照片，並下標「外國勢力干預」。歐塔加斯痛批，中國做法不是一個正式的抗議，而是一個流氓政權會做出來的事情，且相當不負責任。歐塔加斯表示，外交官員會與其他國家不同人士見面，這不僅僅是美國外交官的職責，其他國家外交官也是這麼做。