In Taiwan, Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council Qiu Chui-cheng said he was closely following the arrest of 11 Hong Kong people, including Taiwan’s umbrella restaurant promoter Huang Guotong, by Hong Kong police on suspicion of assisting 12 Hong Kong people to smuggle themselves into Taiwan, and called on the Hong Kong government to face the people’s demands with an accommodating attitude. Taiwan Causeway Bay bookstore manager Lin Rongji believes that there is no longer personal security for Hong Kong people and calls for them to leave as soon as possible. He believes that a third wave of big arrests is coming and speculates that a purge may be carried out against the online media and online speech to ensure that no one can criticize the Hong Kong government anymore.
Deputy Chairman of the Land Commission Qiu Chui-cheng responded to the Hong Kong police arrests, said Hong Kong today, another incident of Huang Guotong lawyers and many other people were arrested, the international community and Taiwan, will pay close attention to the development of the incident.
On January 14, 2021, Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council Qiu Chuizheng said, “The fundamental way to maintain the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong is not to intensify the suppression of dissidents.
Qiu said: Since the Chinese Communist Party claims to implement “one country, two systems” and “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” with a high degree of autonomy, it should follow through on its promise to protect and respect the rights of Hong Kong people to freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. However, since the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, the international community has repeatedly questioned and criticized the relevant parties’ actions that harm human rights.
Qiu Chuizheng pointed out that recent polls in Hong Kong also show that as many as 72 percent of Hong Kong people are dissatisfied with the development of Hong Kong in the past year, and 60 percent of the people think that they are unhappy with their lives in the past year.
Qiu Chuizheng said: We must once again appeal to the relevant parties to be tolerant and rational in the face of the people’s aspirations, and not to intensify the political suppression of dissidents, which is the fundamental way to maintain the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong.
Taiwan Causeway Bay bookstore manager Lin Rongji said in an interview with this station that when the Hong Kong government made the first big arrest, it was expected that there would be a second one, but he did not expect it to happen so soon. He believes that the situation of Hong Kong people is now quite dangerous, their own safety is not guaranteed, and calls on those who can leave to leave Hong Kong as soon as possible.
Lin Rongji said: now Hong Kong seems to be like Stalin, there is no way, Hong Kong people really can not leave. And I worry, now is the second wave of arrests, I believe that the third wave came one after another. Obviously the Hong Kong government to confiscate the passport of those who resist first on the pretext of not allowing them to leave Hong Kong, which is not a disguised restriction on the personal freedom of Hong Kong people? We are not sure if they are involved in the so-called 12 Hong Kong people leaving Hong Kong. Although the Hong Kong Police Force is saying so, but is not the third wave down the road and use such an excuse all the way to enlarge it? This will really be everyone’s own danger.
Lin called on the Taiwanese authorities to relax and speed up the admission of Hong Kong people who applied for entry into Taiwan on political grounds at a time when they are facing persecution.
I hope that the government of the Republic of China will speed up the process of processing some of the protesters who want to come here,” Lin said. As far as I know, some people want to leave because the procedure here (Taiwan) is not fast enough, and as a result, they can not come to Taiwan and then even be prosecuted, I heard the situation is this.
Lin Rongji believes that the Hong Kong government recently two consecutive rounds of arrests, is to see the United States regime change moment, there is no time to react to the issue of Hong Kong. He predicted that the third wave of big arrests is coming, but it is good to have a purge for online speech.
Lin Rongji said: you see the content of the National Security Law is very vague wrapped around the mountain and the sea, so that the next wave is not those net stations and people who write comments? Will the scope of the arrests then enlarge it? We can all see that there are still many people in Hong Kong who express political views on the Internet and criticize the Hong Kong government, will the next wave be these people? We even see some online media being searched now, will their reporters be alright? I am worried that they will be implicated all the way out. What the Hong Kong government wants is for Hong Kong people to shut up, that is, not to have any resistance.
As for the umbrella restaurant set up by Huang Guotong opposite Taiwan University in Taipei, it is open for business as usual today, and the staff in the store are reluctant to respond to the incident. In the restaurant dining Taiwan University students said, saw the news know that the founder was arrested, specially come to eat to express support for Hong Kong people.
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