At the forum on the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of the Hong Kong Basic Law, Zhang Xiaoming, Executive Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, was seen as saying that the Chinese Communist Party is in a hurry to end the “one country, two systems” guaranteed by the “Hong Kong Basic Law”, which has “remained unchanged for 50 years”.
In response to the disqualification of four pro-democracy members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Zhang openly declared, “Those who love the country and love Hong Kong rule Hong Kong, and those who oppose China and disrupt Hong Kong are out. It should be clear that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is the backbone and safeguard of Hong Kong’s capitalist system. “The term “political rules” quickly became a mantra for the authorities after Xi Jinping took power, and became a mantra for the Xi regime to suppress all opposition, including party insiders. “This is a total disregard for the fact that Hong Kong society is based on the rule of law.
Senior Chinese Communist Party officials have put Hong Kong-loving pro-democracy legislators on the opposite side of the fence and declared that “socialism” is the guarantee of the capitalist system, which has caused the outside world to wonder. When Hong Kong was returned to China, the reason for retaining the capitalist system was that it was incompatible with the communist system practiced in mainland China, so “one country, two systems” was adopted to retain the capitalist system. Beijing accepted this special system for the smooth return of Hong Kong, and guaranteed that it would remain unchanged for 50 years, framed in law. Now the Beijing authorities are actually using an unjustifiable way to impose on Hong Kong “Chinese socialist characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party of China”, observers analyze, this is clearly in the party leadership to impose on the free society of Hong Kong.
Chinese Communist Party officials, including Zhang Xiaoming, are accelerating the dismantling of “one country, two systems” while claiming to “fully implement one country, two systems,” and the disqualification of four pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong for their participation in the counter-submission, which led to the resignation of all pro-democracy legislators. Hong Kong’s Legislative Council has thus become a “one-voice” chamber, causing an uproar in international public opinion. Zhang Xiaoming, on the other hand, proudly proclaimed, “Let the noise” be the “background music” for the new governance model of Hong Kong. Describing freedom of speech as “noise” and removing it, is this the “one country, two systems” in the eyes of a senior Chinese Communist Party official?
Analysts point out that Zhang Xiaoming openly declared that “those who oppose China and disrupt Hong Kong are out”, Beijing authorities have no qualms about suppressing all opposition voices in the name of patriotism, Zhang Xiaoming said, “the word patriotism should be added before the core values of democracy, freedom and human rights that Hong Kong society holds dear. ” What does “patriotism” mean when Beijing refers to the contraction of universal values? Analysis shows that Beijing’s standard is that if you oppose the Chinese Communist Party, you are unpatriotic.
Zhang Xiaoming reiterated the need to “respect the full control of the central government and see that the full control of the central government is the origin of a high degree of autonomy,” and that “one country, two systems” gives Hong Kong people freedom of speech and judicial independence.
However, the senior official said Tuesday that many problems with “one country, two systems” in practice have been exposed and that the “Hong Kong Basic Law” should be treated as a “living law” and its adaptability should be amplified through legislative interpretations and other means.
Beijing has already imposed a Hong Kong version of the national security law on Hong Kong, and now it wants to impose a “socialist system with Chinese characteristics”.
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