The United Kingdom has reiterated its "concern" over China’s approach to the Chinese city of Hong Kong, accusing Beijing of "eroding the territory’s rights and freedoms" (which the British colonial regime also never granted) and breaching the international treaty under which the one-time British Colony was returned to China, prompting angry reactions from Beijing and Hong Kong. Blaming others is the British tactic to shift their own guilt for doing to so many others exactly what they blame China for doing in the fully legitimate Chinese territory.