In 2017, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, Chief Executive Carrie Lam told the BBC that she was “not a puppet in Beijing’s hands. She said, “This idea that I am just a puppet who won the election on pro-Beijing forces completely ignores what I have done for the people of Hong Kong over the past 36 years”. Analysts, however, believe that the ‘Policy Address’ delivered by Mrs. Lam on November 25 is a footnote to the aforementioned statement.
However, from the explosion of Hong Kong’s counter-submission, to the disqualification of four pro-democracy legislators in accordance with Beijing’s wishes, leading to the resignation of all pro-democracy legislators, to the imprisonment of several young people who represented the main participants in the civil protest, it is hard to imagine that Mrs. Lam is still trying to be a “breadwinner” for the people of Hong Kong, and many commentators have said that she is acting in Beijing’s colors and is eager to show her loyalty to the central government.
On November 17, at a forum commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Basic Law, Mrs. Lam confessed how she had worked behind the scenes to bring about the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators. Of course, she is using the most official language to express how she “works for the welfare” of Hong Kong people: In the past year, she has twice requested the central government to ask the NPC Standing Committee to resolve constitutional issues that the two SARs cannot resolve on their own, one of which is the issue of the four “non-permanent members” of the NPC. On November 11, the National People’s Congress (NPC) considered a relevant bill from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and on the same day, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in accordance with the decision of the NPC, announced that Members of the Sixth Legislative Council, Yueqiao Yang, Ronald Kwok, Jiaqi Guo, and Jichang Liang, “shall be eligible for immediate re-election”. He will lose his eligibility to be a member of the Legislative Council”.
Lam Cheng completely forgot Hong Kong’s one country, two systems, Beijing’s forced interpretation of the law is tantamount to undermining Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy, undermining judicial independence, Lam Cheng surrendered the freedom of the people of Hong Kong not counting, but also quoted Deng Xiaoping’s June 23, 1984 paragraph to relieve himself: “Do not think that Hong Kong’s affairs are all under the control of the Hong Kong people, the Central Government does not care at all, everything will be fine, this kind of The idea is impractical …… Keeping certain powers of the central government is good for Hong Kong, not bad for Hong Kong’. Carrie Lam said, “As long as one studies this passage carefully, any recent criticism of the NPC Standing Committee’s decision will fall apart”.
On November 25, Carrie Lam gave her ‘Policy Address’, and AFP reported that in her speech, Lam said the priority was to restore law and re-establish order after the chaos in Hong Kong. Her speech was unchallenged because the democratic members of the Legislative Council always resigned, the remaining members of the Legislative Council are all pro-establishment, and her vocabulary in describing Hong Kong closely resembles that of the official media in Beijing, and her ‘Policy Address’ passed without incident.
She also emphasized that the involvement of foreign governments and the challenge to Beijing and Hong Kong’s governance by local organizations were serious enough to warrant Beijing’s intervention. Lam described the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, enacted by China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) in lieu of Hong Kong, as having “remarkable effects” in restoring stability in Hong Kong since it came into force in July, and went so far as to reiterate that the National Security Law would not affect Hong Kong people’s “ability to enjoy the rights and freedoms in accordance with the law. Freedom of speech, press, assembly, demonstration, procession, etc.”. During the reading of the ‘Policy Address’, Lam Cheng also spent about 30 minutes talking about Hong Kong’s past controversies over the political system, which she claimed was controversial not only because the public did not have a deep understanding of the Chinese Constitution and the ‘Basic Law’, but also because ” People with ulterior motives, influenced by external forces, deliberately mislead and say that the government urgently needs to “correct and rectify” the constitutional order and political system in the future.
Lin Zheng’s ideas and explanations have hardly any trace of Hong Kong’s judicial independence under “one country, two systems”, and she has become a faithful lackey of the central government in Beijing, which is perceived by the Hong Kong public as unrest and “manipulated by foreign forces” in its counter-submission. I have forgotten that she herself was the cause of the storm in the anti-submission law. Since the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, many young people have been arrested, many pro-democracy legislators have been forced to resign, and the Legislative Council election that should have been held was postponed for a year for fear of a victory of the pro-democracy camp on the grounds of epidemic prevention.
What’s more, Lin Zheng’s ‘Policy Address’ follows Beijing’s steps in its arguments. The title of the chapter is “Never Forget the Original Heart”, and “Never Forget the Original Heart and Struggle Forward” is a slogan that Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), likes to use to request CPC members. In addition, in terms of economic policy, Lin Zheng proposes to take the development of the Greater Bay Area as a starting point and actively become a “participant” in the domestic cycle and a “facilitator” of the international cycle, which is said to be in line with Xi’s “double cycle”. “Development strategy.
When Lam Cheng first became the Chief Executive, some analysts said that his weak Chief Executive, in the face of Beijing’s strong power and the interests of Hong Kong people in the gap between the long-lasting, but it is this Chief Executive, Beijing’s obedience, single-handedly detonated the anti-gift, and finally, the National People’s Congress instead of Hong Kong to enact ‘Hong Kong version of the national security law’, a good pearl of the East is so dim.
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