The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) have opened one after another, kicking off the annual political furore. The two sessions have always been a masterpiece of Chinese birdcage politics, the best of which is Shen Jilan, who has been a delegate for 66 years and has not voted once against the party’s call to do whatever it wants to do. But in the last two years, under the high pressure of accountability for deluded discussion of the central government, only parrots remain in the birdcage, further evolving into saying whatever the party tells them to say. Hong Kong people are concerned about how the Communist Party will amend the Basic Law to achieve its goal of so-called patriots ruling Hong Kong, but instead of hearing arguments for and against amending the law, they will only hear a thousand flattering words at the two sessions.
Voting against the amendment threatens to violate national security laws
The National People’s Congress is theoretically the highest authority in China, but every year the agenda and issues are set by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and the delegates are just machines that press the voting machine. Shen Jilan, who served as a delegate to the National People’s Congress from 1954 to her death in 2020, was a delegate for 66 consecutive years, and she was proud of the fact that she never voted against a single election.
In the history of Chinese Communist Party elections, Shen Jilan’s yes vote may not be worth mentioning, but every no vote is a shocker: In September 1949, when the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference elected the chairman of the Central People’s Government, 576 delegates voted, and Mao got 575 votes. Two years later, Zhang Dongsun was accused of selling information to the United States and was dismissed from his post. His three sons, two committed suicide and one went insane after a long period of imprisonment.
History always has a similar scene. At the first session of the 12th National People’s Congress in 2013, Xi Jinping was elected president, receiving 2,953 votes in favor of the election and the only vote against it, with three other abstentions. It is not known whether the Chinese Communist Party has tracked down who voted against the election, but fortunately there has been no Zhang Dongsun-style incident in which a single negative vote led to the destruction of a Family. But with the crime of presumptuous disagreement with the central government in place, Xi was re-elected president at the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress just five years later, with zero votes against and zero abstentions, a 100 percent vote share.
There was also one dissenting vote and six abstentions when the Hong Kong version of the legislative resolution on the national security law was voted on at the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress last year. The only negative vote, which triggered the media, netizens tracking, was targeted Tian Beichen was publicly denied: “No I did not……sorry to disappoint you. ” Today, patriots ruling Hong Kong sings into the clouds, once the revision of Hong Kong’s electoral system, once again included in the Annexes to the Basic Law in Hong Kong to implement, there will still be opposition votes? Wouldn’t voting against it be a violation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, which is even more serious than the pro-democracy primaries? Besides, who is not afraid of ending up like Zhang Dongsun?
Distorting patriots as the main essence
In fact, this Time, the two sessions on the issue of patriots ruling Hong Kong legislation, not to mention voting against it, even the discussion can only quote the language designated by the party. Last month 22, Xia Baolong, on behalf of the Central Hong Kong and Macao Work Leading Group Office and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, emphasized in his speech at the seminar on patriots ruling Hong Kong that both the formulation and implementation of the Hong Kong national security law and the improvement of the electoral system of the Special Administrative Region “are adhering to and perfecting one country, two systems”. The speakers, delegates and members of the two sessions were all like spandex, saying whatever the party told them to say, repeating this phrase endlessly, repeating that patriots ruling Hong Kong is the proper meaning and core essence of one country, two systems.
What do you mean by patriots ruling Hong Kong? Xia Baolong and other Chinese Communist Party officials and imperial scholars all pull out Deng Xiaoping’s banner, claiming that this was Deng Xiaoping’s idea back then, but they have swallowed part of the words “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong with patriots as the main body”, which really distorts the proper meaning and core meaning of patriots as the main body.
The Hong Kong deputies to the National People’s Congress and members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, to keep the parrot in the birdcage of the bright status, but also must act as a birdcage outside the fighter. Xia Baolong accused Hong Kong “whether in the SAR’s executive, legislative, judicial and other organs of power, or in the District Councils and other non-regime organizations, as well as in the fields of Education, media, etc., has not yet really formed a solid patriots ruling Hong Kong”, pro-communist politicians can still not make every effort to snipe political officials, judges, District Council members, teachers and journalists. What is the problem? “One dog barking at the shadow, a hundred dogs barking at the sound, woe is me!”
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