A media reporter recently asked a senior official of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong how to define the official meaning of “patriotism”. The official said explicitly that “patriotism” refers to love for the country led by the Chinese Communist Party, not “cultural and historical China”.
The Communist Party’s National People’s Congress is expected to vote on a motion to reform Hong Kong’s electoral system on Thursday (March 11). It is believed that the move is intended not only to ensure that so-called “patriots rule” and fundamentally silence opposition in Hong Kong, but also to give the NPC Standing Committee the power to draft Hong Kong laws.
According to AFP, on Tuesday, a media reporter asked Song Ru’an, deputy special commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong, whether the official meaning of “patriotism” for Hong Kong, as in mainland China, means loyalty to the Communist Party.
Song replied, “When we talk about patriotism, we don’t mean love for a cultural and historical China, but love for the current People’s Republic of China under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.” He then added that “patriots must respect the Communist Party of China.”
In response to the issue that the NPC will amend Hong Kong’s electoral system this Time, while claiming that the CCP is not trying to establish a “great unity government” in Hong Kong, Song Ru’an warned that “anyone who challenges the basic system of the country and undermines the constitutional order of Hong Kong is not considered a true patriot “.
In response to Song Ru’an’s above remarks, some Chinese netizens mocked that the Chinese Communist Party officials have finally told the “truth” this time, showing that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to confuse the boundaries between “party” and “state” and blatantly It is blatantly fooling the people of China.
Speaking to Radio Free Asia, Hong Kong-based current affairs commentator Samp, who has moved to Taiwan, said the CCP’s official rhetoric is simply that “patriots must love the Party. He pointed out that “this statement (referring to Song Ru’an’s words) in the final analysis is to tell people not to believe (the Chinese Communist Party) will never engage in the “clear-cut” routine, and that your patriotism means respecting the Party, loving the Party, and only if you love the Party can you love Hong Kong, and this is the overall definition.
Thorpe further pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party’s aim in revising Hong Kong’s electoral system is to force all Hong Kong people who participate in the election to pledge allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party, and even require public officials to take an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong government, the meaning behind which is to require them to be “loyal to the Party.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Benedict Rogers, chairman of Hong Kong Watch, a British human rights NGO, said that pan-democrats in Hong Kong are fighting for democracy, freedom and human rights for the people of Hong Kong, and that it is “shameless” for the Chinese Communist Party to demand that they be loyal to the party. “It also undermines the promises made by the Chinese government in the Hong Kong Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Rogers said, “The true patriots are those who speak out for the rights of the people of Hong Kong, the people of China, who speak out on behalf of human rights, human dignity and freedom, who are true patriots.”
In a related report, AFP noted that the phrase “only patriots can govern Hong Kong” was first proposed by former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping in 1984. At the time, Hong Kong people feared that the transfer of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to the Chinese Communist regime in 1997 would bring an end to Hong Kong’s political pluralism. To appease Hong Kong people, Deng explained at the time that “‘only those who love the country can rule Hong Kong,’ meaning that Hong Kong people are part of China and have to support China’s prosperity, but do not necessarily have to be loyal to the (Communist) Party.”
As we all know, back then, in order to get back the territorial sovereignty of Hong Kong smoothly, the Chinese Communist authorities led by Deng Xiaoping had publicly guaranteed that the capitalist system in Hong Kong would remain unchanged for 50 years. However, less than 24 years after the handover of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Party forced the introduction of a Hong Kong version of the National Security Law last year, and is now revising Hong Kong’s electoral system, which, according to outsiders, has already ruined Deng Xiaoping’s promise back then.
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