The National Association for the Study of Hong Kong and Macau held a seminar in Beijing yesterday morning (22nd), and Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, delivered a speech. It also pointed out that the heads of the executive, legislature, judiciary and important statutory bodies should be truly patriotic and not occupied by anti-China elements. The late Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping once said that Hong Kong people must love the country, but not necessarily the Communist Party of China, that is, love the country but not the Party.
First, patriots must safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, and do not engage in activities that endanger national sovereignty and security; attacking the central government, openly advocating “Hong Kong independence”, asking foreign countries to impose sanctions or pressure on Beijing and the Hong Kong government, etc. are not patriots.
- Respect and maintain the national system and the constitutional order of the SAR, and do not undermine the socialist system led by the Communist Party of China.
Thirdly, we should do our best to maintain the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and the “speculators” are not among the patriots.
In the second point, Xia Baolong explicitly said that the CPC is the founder and leader of “one country, two systems”. This means that those who oppose the Communist Party do not meet the definition of “patriot”.
Xia also identified the “New Black Five” in Hong Kong as follows
- hysterically attacking the central government by various means.
Second, openly advocate the independence of Hong Kong.
Criticism of the Central Government and the Hong Kong government at the international level.
Demanding foreign countries to impose sanctions and pressure on China and Hong Kong, and violating the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law.
V. Challenging the fundamental system of the country, refusing to accept or deliberately distorting the constitutional order of Hong Kong.
According to Xia Baolong’s remarks, the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong has criticized the Hong Kong government and the Central Government, and has demanded or agreed with foreign sanctions against China and Hong Kong that undermine Hong Kong’s democracy and freedom.
But Xia’s definition is clearly against Deng Xiaoping’s instructions. Deng used to say that Hong Kong people must love the country, but not necessarily the Communist Party of China, but Xia Baolong reinterpreted Deng’s statement, saying that Deng’s standard of “patriots” only refers to the situation in Hong Kong “before the reunification,” emphasizing that the Communist Party of China is the leader of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is the leader of “one country, two systems. He stressed that the CPC is the leader of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the founder of the “one country, two systems” policy and the leader of the “one country, two systems” cause, and cannot support one country, two systems and oppose the Communist Party.
Lv Bingquan, a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Baptist University, said that Xia Baolong’s statement on “patriots” clearly tightened Deng Xiaoping’s statement, rewriting Deng’s former “patriotism is not the same as love of the Party” to “love of the country must be In addition, the mainland’s national security law in recent years has also equated “national security” with “the security of the Chinese Communist regime”. It is believed that members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC), which advocates “ending one-party dictatorship and building a democratic China”, will find it very difficult to run for the Legislative Council in the future.
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