After the implementation of the National Security Law, Hong Kong is like a dark cloud overhead.
Hong Kong’s geographical location near the mainland, because it was once a British colony, became a window for overseas exploration of China during the years of the Chinese Communist Party‘s closed-door rule. Professor Ming Jui-ching, professor emeritus of the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, said that many mainlanders fled to Hong Kong and wrote articles for newspapers to analyze the current situation on the mainland, making Hong Kong a base for studying the Chinese Communist Party. After 1997, Hong Kong’s free space was tightened, and Professor Ming said frankly that he was banned from entering Hong Kong, “I knew then that Hong Kong was not the same anymore.
The former “Center for the Study of Banditry”
Professor Ming Juzheng said on the program of Hong Kong scholar Shen Xuhui that cross-strait relations between Taiwan and the mainland basically did not exist at first, “only the difference between fighting and not fighting”. At that Time, the term “bandit” was used to refer to the Chinese Communist Party, and the institution that studied the Chinese Communist Party was called the “Bandit Research Center”. He laughed and said that if this term was applied, experts on the CCP would be called “experts on banditry” and now the term “experts on China” is much more elegant.
Professor Ming said that Hong Kong used to be a base for overseas studies of the Chinese Communist Party. During the 1960s and 1980s, many people who had lived on the mainland came to Hong Kong and wrote analytical articles for the newspapers because they had no skills.
Professor Ming said he himself had read such articles and “analyzed them very well”. He cited the example of “a gentleman who wrote about the Cultural Revolution on the mainland in the newspaper every day” and made predictions every two or three days, and those predictions were basically correct.
China Research Service Center faces restructuring
Ming Juzheng continued, saying that Taiwan’s research on the Chinese Communist Party was confidential, while Hong Kong’s was open, printed in newspapers and magazines and sold publicly. In addition, the Chinese University of Hong Kong also has a “China Research Service Center,” which is considered the world’s largest collection of contemporary Chinese materials, including Chinese local gazettes, statistical yearbooks, journals and official publications, including a large number of materials on the Chinese Communist Party’s political movements and documentaries that were blocked on the mainland, and other historical collections. The Center has been described as a holy city of scholarship and a Mecca for Chinese studies. Unfortunately, the Center for Chinese Studies is facing a reorganization, and some scholars fear that the Chinese Communist Party is using it to seal off sensitive materials.
Banned from entering Hong Kong
After the 1997 handover, Hong Kong’s freedom was unwittingly eroded, and Professor Ming was banned from entering Hong Kong. He said that about 10 years ago, when he was checking in at the Hong Kong airport, he was taken to a room by an immigration officer to check his luggage and asked questions, after which another senior officer informed him that he was banned from entering Hong Kong for security reasons. Professor Ming found this excuse unbelievable. He was the head of the political science department of Taiwan University at the time, how could an academic make Hong Kong unsafe?
Professor Ming said he was not a radical person and did not make radical remarks, “The most radical thing I said was that China should be democratized. He and that officer said, he was banned from entering the country no problem, but the officer to stay in Hong Kong all the time, “If you Hong Kong people are so to enforce the laws of Hong Kong, the end will only harm themselves.”
“At that time I knew that Hong Kong was different”, “and many of my friends in Hong Kong were warned to be more careful in their speech”, it was 2003, before Article 23 came into existence.
Professor Ming said he had the impression that although Hong Kong was not democratic, there was freedom, and this freedom came from the rule of law, which was established on the basis of English common law.
Anti-sending to China makes Xi Jinping to Hong Kong to hit hard
Ming Juzheng made many accurate predictions during the 2019 anti-China campaign. He already predicted “big arrests”, “big beatings” and “secret killings”, and that after the killings, the authorities would deliberately show the corpses to Hong Kong people to scare them. “I am going to kill people”. Professor Ming pointed out that “the personality of the Chinese Communist Party is like this”, creating a chilling effect, which is its means of ruling the country by fear. At that time, Professor Ming did remind the protesters to go Home after the march and not to go out, not to be left alone, especially girls.
During the anti-China movement, it was widely rumored that the PLA would impose martial law on the streets and even shoot at the protesters, which Professor Ming successfully predicted would not happen, but would “use the Hong Kong police to impose martial law in disguise.
However, the rapid introduction of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law was not expected by Ming Juzheng. In his analysis, Xi Jinping was challenged within the Chinese Communist Party by the anti-China campaign, and because the business princelings were wealthy and powerful in Hong Kong, Xi was worried that they would influence him by gathering power, “That’s how the Communist Party is.
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