The Chinese Communist Party‘s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened at the Great Hall in Beijing on the 4th. In his opening speech, CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang hinted that there has been a major change in the CCP’s policy on Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in the Great Hall in Beijing. In his opening speech, CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang hinted that there has been a major change in the CCP’s policy on Hong Kong and Taiwan. As for what changes, Wang Yang revealed in his work report that all 12 words promised by Deng Xiaoping in the past, such as “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” and “one country, two systems”, have disappeared.
In his opening speech, CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang hinted at a major change in the Communist Party’s policy on Hong Kong and Taiwan.
When Wang Yang read out the work report of the CPPCC Standing Committee at the meeting, he reduced the length of the section on Hong Kong and Macau to about 100 words. This work report is considered the “shortest ever”, with a total length of only about 40 minutes.
Since 2014 to 2020, the CPPCC chairman’s work report, in the section of Hong Kong and Macao, have mentioned “one country, two systems”, for example, last year’s report said to “closely focus on promoting ‘one country, two systems’ to carry out steady and far-reaching “But in this year’s report, “one country, two systems” has disappeared without a trace; it has become “firmly support the principle of patriots ruling Hong Kong”.
In addition, “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” and “a high degree of autonomy” disappeared from the report for the second consecutive year.
In the coming year, the report said that Beijing “firmly support the full implementation of the principle of ‘patriots ruling Hong Kong’, strengthen solidarity and friendship with compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan and overseas compatriots, and carry out research and consultation on strengthening patriotic Education for young people in Hong Kong and Macao and promoting cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation. “
The outside world noticed that Wang Yang in the report, in addition to emphasizing the “patriots ruling Hong Kong” this reference, completely did not mention the “one country, two systems, Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong, a high degree of autonomy” formulated by Deng Xiaoping’s 12-word policy of governing Hong Kong.
Since Xi Jinping came to power, especially since the outbreak of the anti-sending protest in Hong Kong in June 2019, the Chinese Communist Party’s approach to governing Hong Kong has begun to change gradually. First, it emphasized the importance of “one country” over “two systems” in “one country, two systems,” then it omitted “a high degree of autonomy,” and now it includes “one country” over “two systems. “and now “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” has been replaced by “patriots ruling Hong Kong”.
According to the promise made by the late Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, and written into the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s sovereignty will remain unchanged for 50 years from 1997 to 2047 after the handover to Beijing. Now Deng Xiaoping’s promised Hong Kong policy has become the reality that Beijing is running Hong Kong affairs, and “one country, two systems” is completely dead.
Hong Kong current affairs commentator Lin He Li told Radio Free Asia that the CPPCC work report clearly focuses on “one country” and the central government’s full governance of Hong Kong. The “two systems” means that Hong Kong people can participate in elections or free discussion to express their views in less and less space, the central government weakened the two systems, the channels and possibilities for Hong Kong people to participate in politics.
Hong Kong current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao said, since 2003, 500,000 Hong Kong people took to the streets to oppose the legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law, Beijing officials in 2004 has begun to “one country, two systems”, “a high degree of autonomy” and “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” to add new interpretations.
He said, including “one country before two systems”, “one country above two systems”, “a high degree of autonomy is not absolute autonomy”, “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong is The new statements, including “one country before two systems,” “one country above two systems,” “a high degree of autonomy is not absolute autonomy,” and “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong is patriots ruling Hong Kong,” reflect Beijing’s “firm governance” mentality, although it has not been enforced.
The turning point was the Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2019 after the outbreak of Hong Kong’s “anti-China” movement, which stressed the need to “firmly grasp” the overall governance of Hong Kong, which Beijing is now about to fully implement.
Liu Ruishao said: last year’s report, “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” is no longer, today, in fact, has been managed by Beijing, so “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong” is not mentioned, to now “one country, two systems “This is the “enhanced and distorted version” of their past thinking.
He said that in order to analyze the current approach of Beijing to the Hong Kong issue, we must link to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to be held next year. Those in power in Beijing now see Hong Kong as a “destabilizing factor” for the 20th National Congress and fear that their political opponents will use the Hong Kong issue to attack them. Therefore, under such a “disorder of thinking”, he has many enemies.
Liu Ruishao said that these so-called enemies, as perceived by the Chinese Communist Party in power, are using Hong Kong to oppose him at Home. For example, civil rights lawyers, domestic human rights incidents, they think that sometimes they will use Hong Kong to project back to the country, which also involves the domestic political or regime security.
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