The late Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping once pledged that Hong Kong would remain unchanged for 50 years, and even said that “there is no reason to change in 50 years”.
Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
The closing ceremony of the 4th session of the 13th National People’s Congress was held on the 11th, and the “draft decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” was voted on, with 2895 votes in favor, 0 votes against and 1 abstention. In response, foreign media posted the words of the late Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping on January 18, 1990: “Hong Kong is not about short-term unchanged, it is about long-term unchanged, 50 years.” This is a sarcastic comment that the Chinese Communist Party is now trying to defeat Deng Xiaoping.
According to comprehensive media reports, the CCP’s previous push for a “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” has already caused an international outcry, and now it has voted to pass a “draft decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” which aims to ensure that “patriots are the mainstay of the ‘Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong'”. The draft decision aims to ensure that “Hong Kong people, mainly patriots, rule Hong Kong”.
The draft decision amends Hong Kong’s electoral commission system, so that the Election Committee will be composed of 1,500 members from five sectors. Before the reform, the Election Committee was composed of 4 sectors with 1,200 members, but now after the change, the new 5th sector, according to Hong Kong media reports, may be filled by members of patriotic associations. The bill will also significantly reduce the number of directly elected seats in the Legislative Council and other levels of elections in Hong Kong, which is tantamount to stifling the voice of the democratic camp in Hong Kong, and the Chief Executive Carrie Lam also said earlier that she would fully cooperate with the Central Government.
In a film of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s meeting with then Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping 30 years ago, on January 18, 1990, Deng Xiaoping clearly declared that Hong Kong “will not change, cannot change, not in the short term, but in the long term. …… means no change in 50 years, and in 50 years There is no reason to change ……”, Deng Xiaoping’s statement is contrary to Xi Jinping’s current approach to Hong Kong.
Now that it has been less than 24 years since the handover of sovereignty in Hong Kong, the voice of democracy has been immediately stifled and Beijing has forced through the “Draft Decision on Improving the Electoral System of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. Although it is nominally intended to create a “new democratic electoral system with Hong Kong characteristics,” it is actually intended to give Hong Kong’s democratic politics no room to speak.
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