Beijing, China - Oct 16, 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Press conference of Taiwan Affairs Office of State Council in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman, Taiwan Affairs Office of State Council (ending with shot 3):
"It is lawful, justified and reasonable for the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to enact the Anti-mask Regulation as it will help stop the violence and restore social order. The implementation of the regulation does not affect the legal rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents, such as rights on the freedom of peaceful assembly. The DPP is attempting to undermine the prosperity and stability of the HKSAR and make political gains, which will fail."
3. Various of reporters
4. Press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman, Taiwan Affairs Office of State Council:
"A department head of the DPP authorities completely made a political joke of himself by taking up the issue and hyping it up online. He defamed law enforcement police officers who have been working to maintain legal order and protect the safety of people's lives and property by calling them 'black cops'. It is of the same nature as his use of personal power and position to publicly shield the 'cigarettes smuggling scandal' and the 'case of money left on high speed train'. This shows that in his mind there are only party interests instead of law and justice. Therefore it's clear who is truly 'black' and who is 'white'."
6. Reporters

A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday warned Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority against its attempt to gain politically by undermining the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong.

Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said such attempts are doomed to fail, when responding to a question about the DPP's attack on Hong Kong's Anti-mask Regulation despite the fact that Taiwan has similar rules itself.

"It is lawful, justified and reasonable for the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to enact the Anti-mask Regulation as it will help stop the violence and restore social order. The implementation of the regulation does not affect the legal rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents, such as rights on the freedom of peaceful assembly. The DPP is attempting to undermine the prosperity and stability of the HKSAR and make political gains, which will fail," said Ma.

Meanwhile, Ma pointed out that a recent article by a department of Taiwan authorities falsely described Hong Kong police as "black cops" and spread on social media that these police officers would move to Taiwan, which was completely nonsense.

" A department head of the DPP authorities completely made a political joke of himself by taking up the issue and hyping it up online. He defamed law enforcement police officers who have been working to maintain legal order and protect the safety of people's lives and property by calling them 'black cops'. It is of the same nature as his use of personal power and position to publicly shield the 'cigarettes smuggling scandal' and the 'case of money left on high speed train'. This shows that in his mind there are only party interests instead of law and justice. Therefore it's clear who is truly 'black' and who is 'white'," said the spokesman.

The cigarettes smuggling scandal was revealed in July implicating Taiwan leader's bodyguards have engulfed China Airlines after the island's largest carrier revealed huge quantities of duty-free cigarettes were routinely sold to staff accompanying the leader Tsai Ing-wen on visits overseas.

In September, DPP lawmaker Chen Ming-wen accidentally left three million new Taiwan dollars (95,500 U.S. dollars) in cash aboard a high-speed railway train to Taipei. Despite Chen's denials of money laundering or other illegal activity, prosecutors at Chiayi District Prosecutors Office announced that there would be an investigation into the matter.