As the two sessions of the Communist Party of China (CPC) kick off, the “patriots rule Hong Kong” argument overrides everything else on the issue of Hong Kong, sparking international attention.
On March 4, CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang said he firmly supports the full implementation of the principle of “patriots ruling Hong Kong. The following day, the vice chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) claimed that Hong Kong’s electoral system “has obvious loopholes and shortcomings” and that it is necessary to “improve” it in order to establish “a new democratic electoral system with Hong Kong characteristics. “. The concrete implementation of this change has been included in the agenda of the NPC meeting. According to sources quoted by the Hong Kong media, the 117 District Council seats originally elected by District Council members from among themselves may be abolished, and the CPC will arrange for more pro-Beijing members to control the situation and ensure that their preferred candidates will become the Chief Executive.
At this point, the Chinese Communist Party has completely taken off the veneer of “one country, two systems” and “Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong”, and has revealed its true face as “the Chinese Communist Party ruling Hong Kong”. This change is in line with the increasing emphasis on “Party leadership” in recent years. Not only has the CCP not changed at all, but it does not even care about confusing slogans, and it is clearly continuing to be the enemy of freedom and human rights.
The turmoil in Hong Kong since June 2019, when the “anti-China campaign” began, illustrates the “characteristics” of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule: the Party’s media disinformation and news blackout, the rapid introduction of the “Hong Kong National Security Law”, the Hong Kong government becoming a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party, police brutality, police and black collusion, and white terror. The world watched as Hong Kong’s press, press, rallies, elections and rule of law regressed. Today, “one country, two systems” is in vain, the Basic Law has been hollowed out, and the former pearl no longer exists.
In January, 55 Hong Kong pan-democrats were arrested by the police for violating the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law by participating in the pan-democratic primary election last July. A few days before the opening of the two sessions, on February 28, 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were charged with “conspiracy to subvert state power” and have been detained since.
On the evening of March 4, after the two sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) released their voices about “patriots ruling Hong Kong,” the Hong Kong Department of Justice filed a review of the decision to grant bail to 15 of these 47 people, leaving them still unable to go free, and many of their families emotional and close to collapse.
Emilia Wong, the girlfriend of one of those arrested and spokeswoman for the civil society rally, Liu Guiyang, told reporters, “What is this regime afraid of?”
The question reveals the essence: the CCP fears all questions and challenges, fears the exposure of its lies, fears the loss of power and the huge benefits associated with it, and fears the reckoning and trial of justice.
On July 11 and 12 last year, 610,000 Hong Kong people came out of their homes to vote for the primaries coordinated by the pro-democracy camp, showing their courage in defying the Chinese Communist Party’s state security laws. If the pro-democracy camp can obtain the right to fair election guaranteed by the Basic Law, it will probably further expand its political territory and may be able to check and balance with the pro-communist establishment, which will be a nightmare for the CCP. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party is using the stick of “subversion of state power” to arrest pro-democracy activists on a large scale, while planning to change the election system in Hong Kong to kill the chance of pro-democracy participation in politics.
What the Chinese Communist Party is doing in Hong Kong is the same way it has been doing in Hong Kong: concocting lies, demonizing the target, reducing the opponent’s room for survival, and finally arresting and convicting them so that they can never get back on their feet. This criminal tactic has been used against “rightists,” “counterrevolutionaries,” human rights lawyers, Falun Gong practitioners, petitioners, and other citizens from all walks of Life to suppress the truth, resistance, and the desire for freedom and rights.
In the past few years, the CCP has continued to suppress human rights lawyers on the mainland, persecuted Falun Gong practitioners who believe in “truth, goodness, and tolerance,” tightly controlled the Internet, expelled publicists such as Xu Zhangrun, besieged Writer Fang Fang, and placed under house arrest and harassed a large number of Chinese people who are brave enough to challenge the authorities and have a heart for justice.
All these activities are carried out in the name of “patriotism”. The CCP has tied the party to the state, so that exposing and resisting the CCP is vilified as “secession,” “subversion of the state,” and “anti-China chaos“; foreign governments that defend human rights in China become “insulting” or “insulting” to China. Foreign governments defending human rights in China have become “insulting” or “anti-China”. In addition, the CCP shamelessly represents “the people” at all times, saying that outside criticism “hurts the feelings of the Chinese people”. Behind all these high-sounding labels is the CCP’s insane persecution of the people and its trampling on universal values.
Today, the Chinese Communist Party has dragged Hong Kong into the darkest hour, while it is singing about the “community of Destiny of the Chinese nation” and the “community of human destiny”. What does the CCP call “community”? It is to be reddened and forced to submit, to be indoctrinated with red lies, to abandon sincerity, goodness and conscience, and to sing its praises.
Hong Kong is a mirror. If the international community can really see the present and the past of Hong Kong, it should not give the Chinese Communist Party another chance to perform, lie and cover up its crimes with a false face.
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