Hong Kong’s Director of National Security, Mr. Choi Chin-pang, has been caught in an investigation of an unlicensed massage parlor, causing an outcry in Hong Kong and internationally. In an exclusive interview with our station, Ching Cheong, a China expert and senior media personality in Hong Kong, said that behind a scandal in a highly sensitive department, it reflects that the over-expansion of the Hong Kong police force in recent years has led to the discontent of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party would rather be humiliated than to take advantage of this incident to declare its “power of life and death” of official authority, “all Hong Kong All government departments are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party”.
The case of Choi Chin-pang, the “first brother” of Hong Kong’s National Security Bureau, is initially puzzling because this extremely sensitive information was obtained by the South China Morning Post, a major English-language newspaper with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and was the first to disclose it, and the person who broke the news was afraid of being accused of “endangering national security. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
Although the Hong Kong patronage of unlicensed erotic massage parlors, not illegal, the Hong Kong police claim that “no immoral and illegal behavior for the time being,” but Cheng Xiang said, this time involving the head of the National Security Division, in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party, its behavior is not simply damage to the image of civil servants and Tsai Zhanpeng’s personal mistakes, but to endanger national security, a serious blow to the reputation of the National Security Division. The CCP wants to use this opportunity to remove the scourge and at the same time express its dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong government and armed forces.
Ching Cheong: The Hong Kong government is under the control of the Chinese Communist Party
Ching Cheong said: this person went to the “bone field”, there is a danger to national security. When the immoral transaction is recorded in a minute, it will be threatened by the hostile forces, which is an act that endangers the national security. On the surface, visiting a prostitute is a personal matter, but because he is in a high position of power and has the responsibility of national security, he is caught in a painful situation. In this incident, the Chinese Communist Party’s political and legal department or security department intended to send an important message to the Hong Kong police force and the Hong Kong government, “all your people are under my surveillance”.
Cheng Xiang pointed out that the Hong Kong disciplinary forces in 2019 anti-revision demonstrations are “over-inflated”, the Chinese Communist Party continues to support the disciplinary forces, “the police as if they have the imperial sword, suppressing social dissent”, so they think they are above government departments, the first class, can override the Hong Kong government constraints. Therefore, they think they are above government departments and can override the constraints of the Hong Kong government. Since the Chinese Communist Party relies on Hong Kong’s disciplinary forces to implement the policy of maintaining secrecy, the police force as the “armed forces” of Hong Kong has grown, which is not good and very dangerous, so it is necessary to double the overall control and consolidate authority.
Better to lose face than to assert authority
The scandal of Cai Zhanpeng, who was sanctioned by the United States, has also been widely reported in the international media, and the Beijing government has been ordered to disgrace itself. However, the official media in mainland China have not blocked the news, and the incident has been reported by People’s Daily Online and Global Network. According to Cheng Xiang, the Chinese Communist Party has a bigger agenda behind it.
Cheng Xiang said: Of course, it is not dignified, but the Chinese Communist Party would rather use this incident to have a better excuse to show that strengthening the control of civil servants and the police force is desired.
Cheng continued that the Chinese Communist Party does not trust and dissatisfied with the Hong Kong government and the disciplined forces, so there has been ready to take over Hong Kong, long-term to “pull”, that is, regularly send Hong Kong civil servants to the mainland for training, and monitoring means to consolidate power, is expected to strengthen ideological and political education in the future, in order to make them strictly control their words and actions.
China’s official power struggle culture can not be ruled out to infiltrate Hong Kong
This incident has triggered another focus of discussion is related to the Chinese official power struggle culture infiltration of the Hong Kong government. Ching Cheong thinks this is not unexpected. He also pointed out that the “power of life and death” in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, in order to check the power of the ad hoc Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervisory Commission “to monitor officials”, “reporting” is the normal struggle, but The fate of the reported officials depends on how fierce their backstage is, whether they stand on the right side, “if they stand on the opposite side of the power faction, they will be severely punished.
Cheng Xiang said: China has a jingle: “If all officials are shot, there must be an unjust case. If one is shot every other one, there must be a fish that escaped the net”. So many people corrupt, who will be rectified, depending on whether political mistakes, mistakes that is not with the old Xi (Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party), will be dead, if no political mistakes, as a general life style problems, to violate discipline light sentence.
One of the most sensational examples of Xi Jinping’s frequent crackdown on corruption since he came to power is that he broke the custom of not punishing the Standing Committee and brought down Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, allegedly because Zhou was considered a “Jiang faction” and had a close relationship with Xi’s political rival Bo Xilai. However, Zhou Yongkang was convicted of taking bribes, abuse of power and intentionally leaking state secrets, and was only sentenced to life in prison, not death or suspended death as expected. Zhou was sentenced to a lighter sentence, many commentators pointed out that only because Zhou mastered a large number of state secrets, Xi taboo too much to make enemies.
International relations expert Shen Xuhui wrote an article online earlier, saying that the national security system has always been a fierce infighting, “the highest unit in order to check and balance, must be balanced between different mountains, and soon take some people to sacrifice the flag”.
In an article written by Johns Hopkins University’s Wesson Fetter Professor of Political Economy, it was pointed out that after the scandal broke out, the pro-China media “Hong Kong 01” quickly reported exclusive details of several cases, which inevitably led to suspicions that the police and even the Communist Party of Hong Kong and the Communist Party of China’s top factional struggle, the new Hong Kong Chief Executive election and the Communist Party Congress are coming, and it is feared that the situation of infighting at the top is even more dangerous.
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