Recently, following the arrest and prosecution of 47 pro-democracy activists, the Chinese Communist Party announced changes to Hong Kong‘s electoral system, triggering a new wave of international condemnation.
Apparently, the CCP is not content to subdue the pro-democracy camp through arrests and convictions, but wants to play with the law and legalize and institutionalize its illegal silencing practices.
At a press conference on March 12, Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, sophomorically argued that “the fact that people who are not patriotic cannot enter the regime or governance structure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region does not mean that they cannot work and live normally in Hong Kong, but only that they cannot participate in governance.”
Now, millions of Hong Kong people will be judged by the Chinese Communist Party as to who is “patriotic” and who is not. The subtext behind this is: it doesn’t matter if you love Hong Kong or not, it doesn’t matter if you love China or not, the key thing is that you must listen to the Party and follow it. Only such people will be allowed to participate in the “governance” and become the Hong Kong version of the hand-raising machine. Only then will the Chinese Communist Party feel at ease.
Since “patriotism” is the same as “love for the Party,” “non-patriots” means those who do not like the CCP, do not obey its orders, and dare to expose and resist tyranny.
A few decades ago, the CCP called them “counter-revolutionaries”. Now, times have changed, and the CCP needs a more confusing term, hence the term “non-patriots”.
Is it really possible for “non-patriots” to “work and live normally in Hong Kong” under the Chinese Communist Party’s rule?
On February 28, the Hong Kong government arrested 47 pro-democracy activists. Only a few of them have been released on bail, which is quite harsh, including surrendering all travel documents, refraining from making, distributing or reproducing, directly or indirectly, by any means (including traditional entities, electronic media, any public platform) any statement that could reasonably be considered a violation of the National Security Law and crimes against national security under Hong Kong law; refraining from contacting, directly or indirectly, by any means, any foreign officials and legislators themselves, as well as their staff.
Some Family members of arrested pro-democracy activists have pointed out that under these conditions, the arrested are effectively “politically dead”. Despite this, the Chinese Communist Party, which controls the Hong Kong government, has refused to release more people on bail, demonstrating its inner fear. In the future, these democrats will face illegal court hearings and sentencing, and they will all be subject to continued silencing, grounding, bans on running for office, and even on commentary, as well as free access to other people in Hong Kong or abroad. In short, their normal lives and those of their families have ended simply because they once intended to serve Hong Kong by participating in a democratic election in accordance with their rights under the Basic Law.
In early January, after his release from prison, veteran former Democratic Party legislator James To called on China’s national leaders to ponder, “Why can’t [Hong Kong] practice true one-country, two-systems, instead of turning away from civilized values and using trumped-up political charges to persecute people who are peaceful, fighting for civilized values and democracy? I am really so heartbroken.”
On July 28 last year, Dai Yaoting, a well-known democrat and associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, was dismissed from the university. The following day, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, published a statement by a spokesman from the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government, saying that “the dismissal of Tai Yiu-ting by the University of Hong Kong was a move to punish evil and uphold justice,” and slandering him for “seriously intensifying social conflicts and poisoning the political environment of Hong Kong.
There is no doubt that Dai Yaoting is a “non-patriot” in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party. On February 28th, he was arrested again and charged with “conspiracy to subvert state power” and has not yet been released on bail. How will Dai be able to “work and live normally” after losing his job and being charged with illegal crimes?
Last September, the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece media insulted young Hong Kong democrats like Wong Chi-fung with words like “traitor” and “traitor”, threatening them that they were “doomed to lose.
Wong Chi-fung has repeatedly stated publicly that he does not advocate “Hong Kong independence”, but why does the Chinese Communist Party not let him off the hook? The reason is that Wong recognizes the evil of the Chinese Communist Party and is determined to fight against it. He once said, “We will never give in to the oppressive rule of the Communist regime.”
Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party turned on all cylinders and used the media, police and judicial mechanisms to block Huang Zhifeng’s way forward. Instead of vandalism, this young man is a prisoner, deprived of his basic rights, how can he “work and live normally”?
For 70 years, under the banner of “patriotism,” the Chinese Communist Party has persecuted good people, warriors and true patriots with a heart for justice.
On November 7, 1956, Peking University’s Journal No. 96 reported: “Since the beginning of this semester, seven teachers have returned from capitalist countries to work at Peking University, overcoming all kinds of obstacles. They are …… Tiebao Dong, Ph.D. in Mechanics, and his wife Zhenan Mei, M.S. in Plant Physiology ……”
After the start of the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Dong Tiebao was designated as a key target of censorship during the campaign to “clean up the class ranks” and was isolated and not allowed to go Home or have family visits. On October 18, 1968, Dong Tiebao hanged himself and died.
Falun Gong was introduced in mainland China in May 1992 and has demonstrated its miraculous effect of purifying the body and mind, leading to a rapid improvement in social climate and being praised as a hope for the revival of China. However, the Chinese Communist Party banned people from practicing “Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance,” which led to a rapid decline in social morality.
In October, November, and December 2005, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng wrote three public petitions to state leaders, demanding that the authorities stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. In response, lawyer Gao has been subjected to various forms of persecution, including kidnapping, torture, illegal imprisonment, sentencing and house arrest, and has been missing since August 2017.
Lawyer Gao has said, “Loving my country deeply is the only thing that gets me excited in this era.” “The privilege of running for the tomorrow of one of the greatest nations on earth is enough to make an ordinary citizen’s blood run hot!”
On the eve of Father’s Day 2016, Attorney Gao’s daughter, Gege, spoke overseas, “I was very puzzled at first why my dad couldn’t be with us …… He loved the Chinese so much, he loved the Chinese especially, he loved them so much that he thought it was that he could put his family aside first, and I think this idea of his is very, very great, so I’m very proud of him for this idea.”
Sadly, for decades, generations of Chinese people who uphold their conscience and traditional morals have been insulted, slandered, suppressed, and even had their lives taken away by the Chinese Communist Party. Both “patriots” and “non-patriots” are pretexts used by the CCP to deceive and enslave the people. The Chinese Communist Party is not qualified to talk about “patriotism” because it reverses right from wrong and good from evil.
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