Hong Kong people, especially those born after the 1990s, would not have much knowledge or feeling of the raging winds of the Chinese Communist Revolution or the bloodless iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat, but the Chinese Communist Party has regained Hong Kong’s status as a bridgehead in the struggle against the United States and used Hong Kong as a new battleground to inspire patriotic nationalism, putting all Hong Kong people through the white terror of one-party dictatorship, the storm of the Cultural Revolution‘s criticism, the June Fourth massacre in a matter of days. The bloody June 4 massacre. From the criticism of political officials, to the deliberate creation of a Hong Kong version of the February 28th Incident, to the implementation of new electoral arrangements, the CCP is turning Hong Kong into a new base for its revolution and its new theory and practice of continuing revolution.
Patriotism as a rallying cry for the people to overcome the difficulties of the times
Instead of taking back the sovereignty of Hong Kong, the CCP retained Hong Kong as a bridge between itself and the international community based on a strategy of “long-term planning and full utilization. Zhou Enlai stated clearly: “Our policy towards Hong Kong is part of the overall strategic plan for the struggle between East and West. The decision not to take back Hong Kong and to maintain its capitalist British occupation intact cannot be measured by the narrow principle of territorial sovereignty.” By the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping’s proposal to recover Hong Kong’s sovereignty under one country, two systems was likewise part of the CCP’s strategy for the East-West struggle, and Hong Kong was not only a window and bridge for China’s reform and opening up, but also an endorsement of the CCP’s shift in state policy to gain confidence in the West.
After the Chinese Communist Party thought it had stood up, gotten rich, and gotten strong, Hong Kong’s economic status in its eyes has become irrelevant, but its value in the East-West struggle has resurfaced, especially since China and the United States have fallen into a trade war since 2018, and the Western countries’ appeasement policy toward the Chinese Communist Party has entered its end, with no sign of reversal even now that the Biden administration is in power. The confrontation between China and the United States in trade, technology, and finance continues, Wuhan pneumonia ravages the world, and China’s political and economic chaos is difficult to contain, challenging both the legitimacy of the CCP’s rule and the perpetuation of Xi Jinping‘s core position. The CCP leaders urgently need to wage a people’s war and use patriotic nationalism to call on the people to tide over the hard times and live a tight Life together.
The war-wolf diplomacy can satisfy the Chinese people’s vanity of traveling in Gold clothes, but in reality it is not sustainable; the spreading of money abroad seems to create a grand situation of all nations coming to China, but in reality it is not in the hearts of the people; the unification of Taiwan by force is very appealing, but in reality it is not feasible. Therefore, Hong Kong has become a new revolutionary base for the CCP to hold high the banner of patriotism, and it can achieve multiple benefits in one stroke. At the same Time, it can satisfy the wishes of the CCP power elites who have long coveted the political and economic interests of Hong Kong, and it can test the strategy and tactics of the new era of struggle against the U.S. and international revolution, so as to conclude the third generation of Hong Kong theory that transcends the long-term plan of the Mao-Zhou era and the one-country-two-systems of the Deng-Jiang era.
Maintaining authority at the top with continued revolution
The mountains and rivers are easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. The CCP’s red and revolutionary genes are both naturally opposed to universal values and inevitably require continued revolution to maintain the authority of the top echelon and the functioning of the regime. It sings that patriots rule Hong Kong, but its definition of the state is a tool for one class to rule another class. To love this party and this country is to necessarily support one class to rule another class, which in essence means to support the one-party dictatorship of the CCP. It claims to improve Hong Kong’s electoral system, but does not aim to enhance the representativeness of the electorate and the elected, but to undermine the status of District Council members with a broad public opinion base in the Legislative Council and the Election Committee, and even proposes to elect the Chief Executive through consultation, which is in essence the selection of a puppet under the leadership of the Party. It claims that once the National Security Law is enacted, Hong Kong will be ruled from chaos to chaos. However, it deliberately creates a Hong Kong version of the February 28th incident by arresting and prosecuting people who participated in the primary election, which is in essence an attempt to permanently wipe out dissenting voices in Hong Kong through white terror. But what does the wave of solidarity outside the court yesterday tell us?
Mao Zedong invented the theory of “continuing revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat” and launched the Cultural Revolution, which was touted by Lin Biao as “the pinnacle of contemporary Marxism-Leninism”. The Chinese Communist Party is now waging a stormy revolution in Hong Kong, wielding the iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat with reckless abandon. When the CCP flag flies at Hong Kong’s Government House (I don’t know if it will be renamed Red Flag House or Bauhinia House), the CCP will be able to declare that the revolutionary theory of Hong Kong under the Party’s leadership is an important part of Xi Jinping’s thought and the pinnacle of contemporary Marxism-Leninism.
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