BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Overseas Chinese and scholars strongly condemned the U.S. Senate for passing a Hong Kong-related bill on Tuesday, saying the move interferes in China's internal affairs and is detrimental to China-U.S. relations.

The U.S. Senate's brazen meddling in the Hong Kong issue, which ignores the bigger picture of China-U.S. relations and interferes in China's internal affairs, is doomed to fail, said Youyi Wu, president of Western America Chinese Peaceful Unification, a U.S.-based grassroots organization that advocates China's reunification.

He also said that the bill only bolsters up rioters in Hong Kong, adding that overseas Chinese are indignant about the U.S. Senate's move.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a U.S. expert on China, said no country would allow violence to disrupt its society and undermine its economy.

The act "is detrimental for the United States, and for the world, as well as for China," Kuhn, also chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, added.

Khairy Tourk, a professor of economics with the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, said that passing the bill will negatively affect U.S.-China ties.

Hong Kong is an integral part of China. Siding with the protestors who are wreaking havoc on the city, the U.S. act is undoubtedly an interference in China's internal affairs, Tourk said.

Mauricio Santoro, director of the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said by passing the act, the U.S. Senate aimed to worsen the situation in Hong Kong; it has turned a blind eye to and challenges the "one country, two systems" principle.

Sergey Sanakoev, president of the Russian-Chinese Analytical Center, said that the U.S. act is an interference in China's internal affairs and harms prosperity and stability in Hong Kong.

Calling the U.S. Senate's move another political show, Philip Chan, president of Hong Kong Singapore Business Association, said the move will not succeed.

He said that the priority at present is to bring violence and chaos to an end and restore order in the city.