Prominent Hong Kong activist Yuen Kung-yee said in Southern California this week that Trump is on the right track in his crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party, which is positioned as an “organized crime syndicate.
On Monday (Jan. 25), Yuen, a well-known Hong Kong activist, entrepreneur and political and economic commentator, spent three days in Southern California. During his stay, he met with some local advocates of democracy and freedom in China and shared his insights on the change of government in the United States and the situation between the U.S., China and Hong Kong.
Yuan noted that he believes former U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party is moving in the right direction and expects the Biden administration to continue to confront the authoritarian totalitarianism that threatens the security of the Chinese people and the world; he particularly endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s move to characterize the Chinese Communist Party’s actions and policies in Xinjiang as genocide and Crimes Against Humanity the day before he left office.
Crimes against humanity, or crimes against humanity, are defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as “facts consisting of a multitude of acts that constitute extremely serious violations and abuses of human dignity. These are generally not isolated or episodic events, but are either motivated by government policy or a series of government-permitted atrocities. Such as murders …… political, racial or religious persecution, and other inhumane acts committed against the population.”
The statute was adopted in Rome on July 17, 1998, by 120 votes in favor and 7 against by the international community. Because it was an unrecorded vote, the countries that voted against it were not recorded. Three countries, however, stated their reasons for voting against it, including China.
Yuan Bowie told Voice of America, “Trump started his term with no hatred for the CCP, except that the U.S. had been hoodwinked and suffered economically for decades of business between the two countries, but had no intention of blaming the CCP, instead acknowledging that the main reason was ‘we were too stupid. However, with the massive exposure of all the practices of the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and steal from the United States, especially the spread of the new crown Epidemic and the attitude of the Chinese side, Trump’s position with the U.S. Congress and the public has become increasingly firm.”
Yuan Bowie said he is currently working on a lobbying campaign to have the international community pressure the Chinese Communist Party to return Hong Kong’s sovereignty to the people of Hong Kong; hopefully going back to the Time before the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and letting the people of Hong Kong decide for themselves where that sovereignty belongs.
During Hong Kong’s anti-sending China movement in 2020, Yuan Bowie made several trips to the United States to lobby the Trump Administration to sanction the Chinese Communist Party, hoping to overthrow the Communist Party with the power of the United States. Ultimately, the U.S. House and Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act in July of that year, sanctioning people and entities believed to be undermining Hong Kong’s democratic system.
Yuan Bowie said, “Hong Kong was already doomed in ’97 because the Chinese Communist Party was in charge when the Basic Law was signed, and the Basic Law itself was flawed. The British made concessions to the CCP in order to preserve their interests in Hong Kong.”
Article 12 of the third paragraph of the Joint Declaration signed by the Chinese and British governments states that the People’s Republic of China will establish Hong Kong as a special administrative region by means of the Basic Law and, in accordance with the principle of “one country, two systems”, will ensure that the capitalist system in place before the transfer of sovereignty will remain unchanged for 50 years. The socialist system practiced in mainland China will not be extended to Hong Kong, and the HKSAR government will maintain a high degree of autonomy.
Under Article 158 of the Basic Law, the power of interpretation of the Basic Law is vested in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, although it is also provided that the courts of Hong Kong may interpret the Basic Law in respect of matters in the Basic Law relating to the scope of Hong Kong’s autonomy.
In addition, Article 31 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China provides that “the systems to be practiced in the Special Administrative Regions shall be prescribed by law by the National People’s Congress in accordance with specific circumstances”; and Article 62 provides, among the powers and functions of the National People’s Congress, that “it shall decide on the establishment of the Special Administrative Regions and their systems “.
After the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to the Chinese Communist Party, the Standing Committee of the NPC has interpreted the Hong Kong Basic Law on five occasions. Since July 2003, the people of Hong Kong have resisted the encroachment of the Chinese Communist Party on Hong Kong’s territory about 10 times, including the Umbrella Movement, the Causeway Bay Bookstore Incident, the opposition to the NPC’s interpretation of the Basic Law, and the “sending to China” campaign.
Yuan said the most fundamental difference between the CCP and a democracy is human rights; he agreed with former Secretary of State Pompeo’s statement, “As long as you respect human rights, it doesn’t matter what doctrine or what system you have.”
Yuan Bowie pointed out, “The United States, because it was founded as a Christian nation, recognizes that it is endowed with human rights. This is not determined by a contract signed by the United Nations, but a bottom line that is inalienable and non-negotiable no matter what. And the main bad thing the Chinese Communist Party has done for so many years is to violate human rights. The Chinese people really don’t know what human rights are, they have never heard of them, and they think that if they have money, they have rights.”
Some civil rights activists who attended the meeting pointed out that being monitored by cameras, tracked by health codes, tied by electronic money, and deterred by the CCP’s guns, knives and pens, the people of mainland China are simply powerless to break free from the human rights shackles imposed on them.
Many countries still haven’t figured out to this day that the CCP is not a country at all, yet it is diplomatic and equal and UN, but the CCP has never acted according to the standards of a country,” Yuan Bowie said. I want to convince the world that the CCP is positioned as an organized crime group. It is the lawless underworld.”
He expects that the U.S. government will remain committed to preserving Hong Kong and preserving Taiwan; that means preserving the light of the Chinese nation.
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