Hong Kong’s Director of National Security, Mr. Choi Chin-pang, was involved in an investigation of unlicensed massage parlors when his license was “broken”.
Hong Kong’s head of the National Security Bureau, Mr. Choi Chin-pang, has been arrested for patronizing an unlicensed massage parlor, causing an outcry in Hong Kong and internationally. The commentary believes that behind this highly sensitive department scandal, reflecting the Hong Kong police force in recent years excessive expansion of the Chinese Communist Party’s discontent, the Chinese Communist Party would rather be embarrassed, but also to use this incident to declare the “power of life and death” of official authority, “all Hong Kong government departments are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party “The Chinese Communist Party would rather be humiliated than to be disgraced. (Li Zhi Zhi reports)
The case of Choi Chin-pang, the “first brother” of Hong Kong’s National Security Bureau, was initially puzzling because the South China Morning Post, a major English-language newspaper with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, was the first to disclose this extremely sensitive information. The public even joked that the informant was afraid of being accused of “endangering national security”. In this regard, Cheng Xiang, a China expert and veteran media personality in Hong Kong, analyzed to us that the South China Morning Post was “obviously officially authorized to release the information”.
Better to lose face than to assert authority
The scandal of Cai Zhanpeng, who was sanctioned by the U.S., has also attracted extensive international media coverage and has been ordered to disgrace the Beijing government. However, the official media in mainland China did not block the news, “People’s Daily Online” and “Global Network” have reported the incident. According to Cheng Xiang, the Chinese Communist Party has a bigger agenda behind it.
Cheng Xiang said: Of course, it is not dignified, but the Chinese Communist Party would rather use this incident to show that the strengthening of control over the civil service, the police force is the desire.
Hong Kong Police Commissioner Deng Bingqiang last Wednesday (12) admitted that the incident had an impact on the reputation of the police force. (Photo by Lee Chi Chi)
In Hong Kong patronage of unlicensed erotic massage parlors is not illegal, the Hong Kong Police Force also claimed that “no immoral and illegal behavior”. However, Ching Cheong pointed out that this incident involves the head of the National Security Division, in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party, is not simply a personal fault of Tsai Chin-pang or damage to the image of civil servants, but a serious blow to the reputation of the National Security Division, endangering national security. He believes that, in fact, the Chinese Communist Party is to use this opportunity to remove the scourge, while expressing dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong government and armed forces, in order to strengthen the control of the Hong Kong government and disciplinary forces.
The unlicensed massage parlors involved are suspected to be located in the Sincere Building on Tamsin Road in Wan Chai (left), where the signboard “VIET SPA” was removed from the floor. (Deng Yingtao photo)
Ching Cheong: Hong Kong government in the Chinese Communist Party monitoring
Ching Cheong said: this person went to the “bone field”, there is a danger to national security. When the immoral transaction is recorded in a minute, it will be threatened by the hostile forces, which is an act that endangers the national security. On the surface, visiting a prostitute is a personal matter, but because he is in a high position of power and has the responsibility of national security, he is caught in a painful situation. In this incident, the Chinese Communist Party’s political and legal departments or security departments intend to send an important message to the Hong Kong police force and the Hong Kong government, “Your people are under my surveillance.”
The Chinese Communist Party has been supporting the Hong Kong disciplinary forces during the anti-revision demonstrations in 2019, causing them to be “over-inflated” and “the police are like having an imperial sword to suppress different voices in society”, so they think they are above government departments and can override They think they are above government departments and can override the constraints of the Hong Kong government. The Chinese Communist Party relies on the Hong Kong disciplinary forces to implement the policy of maintaining secrecy, as Hong Kong’s “armed forces” of the police force to grow, is not good, and very dangerous, so it must be doubly comprehensive control to consolidate authority.
Cheng continued that the Chinese Communist Party does not trust and dissatisfied with the Hong Kong government and the disciplined forces, so there has been ready to take over Hong Kong, the long-term to “pull” – that is, regularly send Hong Kong civil servants to the mainland training, and monitoring methods to consolidate power. He predicted that the central government will strengthen the ideological and political education of the Hong Kong government and the police force in the future, in order to make them strictly control their words and actions.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam presents the Chief Executive’s Public Service Award to Choi Chin-pang in February this year. (Photo by Government Information Service)
China’s official power struggle culture can not be ruled out to infiltrate Hong Kong
Another focus of discussion arising from this incident is that it is related to the infiltration of China’s official power struggle culture into the Hong Kong government. Ching Cheong is not surprised. He also pointed out that the “power of life and death” in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, in order to check power, the ad hoc Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission and the State Supervisory Commission “to monitor officials”, “reporting” is the normal struggle, but The fate of the reported officials depends on how fierce their backstage is, whether they stand on the right side, “if they stand on the opposite side of the power faction, they will be severely punished.
Cheng Xiang said: China has a jingle: “If all officials are shot, there must be an unjust case. If one is shot every other one, there must be a fish that escaped the net”. So many people corrupt, who will be rectified, depending on whether political mistakes, mistakes that is not with the old Xi (Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party), will be dead, if no political mistakes, as a general life style problems, to violate discipline light sentence.
One of the most sensational examples of Xi Jinping’s frequent crackdowns on corruption since he came to power is that he broke the custom of “not punishing the Standing Committee” by bringing down Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, allegedly because Zhou was considered a “Jiang faction” and had a close relationship with Xi’s political rival Bo Xilai. However, Zhou Yongkang was convicted of taking bribes, abuse of power and intentionally leaking state secrets, and was only sentenced to life in prison, not death or suspended death as expected. Zhou was sentenced to a lighter sentence, many commentators pointed out that only because Zhou mastered a large number of state secrets, Xi taboo too much to make enemies.
International relations expert Shen Xuhui wrote an article online earlier, saying that the national security system has always been a fierce infighting, “the highest unit in order to check and balance, must be balanced between different mountains, and soon take some people to sacrifice the flag”.
In an article written by Johns Hopkins University’s Wesson Fetter Professor of Political Economy, Kong Gao Feng pointed out that after the scandal of Tsai Zhan Peng broke out, the pro-China media “Hong Kong 01” quickly reported exclusive details of a number of cases, which inevitably led to suspicions of factional struggle with the police and even the Communist Party of Hong Kong and the Communist Party of China at the top, and the new Hong Kong Chief Executive election and the Communist Party Congress are coming up, so I am afraid that the situation of infighting at the top is even more dangerous.
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