London: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Thursday again warned China against "repressing" violent protesters in Hong Kong and asked it to listen to the "root causes" of demonstrators' concerns.

"The way to deal with that violence is not by repression, it is by understanding the root causes of the concerns of the demonstrators that freedoms that they have had for their whole life could be about to be undermined by this new extradition law," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.