There are reports that the SAR government is preparing legislation to allow the Secretary for Security to ban any Hong Kong person from leaving the territory at any Time, bypassing the courts. It has also been previously reported that the government is preparing to amend the law to arm the immigration officers. These moves, coupled with Beijing‘s fierce condemnation of Britain for allowing BNO-eligible Hong Kongers to emigrate, suggest that the Chinese Communist Party is very mindful of the wave of emigration and flight that has begun to emerge in Hong Kong, but is at a loss as to how to respond.
During the Donald Tsang era, establishment figures put forward the demographic bloodletting talk about replacing the original Hong Kong people with mainland elites. Later, the official media of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to talk about the “new Hong Kong people”, saying that new immigrants from mainland China are the future of Hong Kong. It is very clear that they want to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and eradicate the original Hong Kong people. After hearing this kind of talk about replacing the original Hong Kong people, many Hong Kong people have decided that Beijing’s policy towards Hong Kong is to “leave the island but not the people”.
Now Britain has opened its doors to welcome Hong Kong people, and Canada has launched a program to recruit Hong Kong people to work. U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken, in a televised interview, said that “China’s behavior toward Hong Kong has gone too far in undermining its commitment to a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong,” and that he “has seen Hong Kong people repeatedly defend their rights, rights that were once guaranteed to them. If they are the victims of Chinese repression, the United States must do something to provide them with a haven.” These remarks by Boo, which were reprinted on the official social media outlets of the State Department and the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, suggest that the United States may also be considering opening its doors to welcome Hong Kong’s Qin avoiders. Taiwan‘s institutions and government have been welcoming Hong Kong students and immigrants for a while now as well.
Countries welcome Hong Kong people to migrate, and totalitarian governments that were going to stay in Hong Kong and not leave people behind are now nervous again and trying every possible way to block the way for Hong Kong people to go. They only want Hong Kong but not Hong Kong people, but they don’t want Hong Kong people to leave, so what do they want to do with Hong Kong people? Do they want to lock up all Hong Kong people and make everyone disappear on the spot?
The fact that the pro-establishment activists do not know what to say about Hong Kong people’s desire to move reflects, to a certain extent, that underneath their strong words and confident declarations, they still have serious worries about Hong Kong and do not know what to do. Beijing can be as tough as it wants to be with the rebels, the pro-democracy politicians, and even the general public. But more seriously, they simply cannot trust the Hong Kong elite. This distrust is not limited to the Tian brothers and other local business elites, who have long been at odds with the SAR government, but also extends to Hong Kong’s old patriots and even to mainland financial elites who have become Hong Kong residents.
Recently, the DAB founding party chairman Tsang Yu-sing, kindly said that politicians should analyze why so many Hong Kong people want to immigrate to the normal words, immediately attracted other pro-establishment figures to attack is “misleading the masses, is to make the Hong Kong people repeatedly wrong, ill-intentioned.” Jack Ma once said he had a Hong Kong identity card, and now is the owner of the South China Morning Post, his “Ant Financial Services” in the mainland and listed in Hong Kong was suddenly braked, he has not appeared in public, before in the media after a brief appearance and then disappeared, for his condition of a wide range of opinions. Recently there has been a major earthquake at Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV, with the withdrawal of PLA-born Liu Changle and his cronies, and news that the station has been taken over by the Chinese government. These developments prove that Beijing is not at ease with either the old patriots or the “new Hongkongers” tycoons. The fact that the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been frequently reorganized in recent years shows that Beijing is also suspicious of the cadres it sends to Hong Kong.
In 2022, Hong Kong will have to elect its Chief Executive. Beijing is extremely distrustful of Hong Kong’s elites, and may even suspect that these agents, who are apparently obedient to Beijing, are in fact secretly collaborating with foreign powers and supporting “black violence” under the table. If Beijing does not trust its own proxies in Hong Kong, will it trust the Election Committee to vote for the next Chief Executive? Will those forces that want to seize the Chief Executive’s seat take advantage of Beijing’s suspicion and uneasiness to create vicious rumors and frame their rivals viciously? It is not impossible that the situation in Hong Kong will become more vicious and out of control as the CE election unfolds.
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