Why Should the World Support Hong Kong as It Faces Grave Danger
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If you are following me on Twitter, you might have seen that I shared quite some videos and photos of the intense protest in Hong Kong last Sunday. Large crowds, tear gases, police brutality, and mass arrests…scenes that we had been seeing for months last year came back to the streets of Hong Kong. People are taking to the streets again to express what they want.
What Do They Protest For?
And what do they want exactly? To put it in a more specific way, they want to protest against the so-called “National Security Law” which is set to be passed on May 28 by the People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, or the CCP.
They also want to protest against the “National Anthem Law” that the HK government is pushing.
If the “National Anthem Law” is passed, anyone in Hong Kong can be found guilty of actions such as “singing the [Chinese] national anthem in a distorted or disrespectful way”, and they could face a fine up to HK$50,000, or $6,440, and three years in prison.
If the “National Security Law” is passed, virtually anything the CCP doesn’t like can be defined as a threat to “national security”, and the CCP’s police can go directly to Hong Kong to enforce the law. Hong Kong will become a city of China; and “One Country, Two Systems” will officially be dead.
So, to put it more broadly, people of Hong Kong are defending their freedom, their way of living, and their autonomy that the CCP promised to give them when taking back Hong Kong from the UK in 1997.
A Brief History of Hong Kong
I guess everybody already knew this: Hong Kong was given to the British Empire in 1842 as a colony after the First Opium ˈəʊpiəm War by the Qing Empire which was governing China then. The colony expanded later after the Second Opium War. In 1898, Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories, one of the three main regions of Hong Kong.
In 1997, when the lease was over, Hong Kong was given back to China, on the condition that the CCP would guarantee Hong Kong's economic and political systems for 50 years after the transfer. So the term “One Country, Two Systems” has been used to describe the status that although Hong Kong has become part of China, the social system is different. Hong Kong can still maintain its previous ways of living.
The Battle Has Long Since Begun
The problem is, when the CCP promises something to gain something, it never intends to keep its words. After it gains that something, it will just swallow its words. That’s what the CCP has been doing to Hong Kong.
The first major attempt for the CCP to impose some sort of “law” to limit Hong Kong’s freedom was in 2003 when the CCP tried to push the so-called “Basic Law Article 23”.
It states that Hong Kong "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organizations or bodies."
That push was met with great resistance from the people of Hong Kong. Half a million people took to the street to protest against it. The CCP had to give up that attempt.
Since then the battle between the people of Hong Kong and the CCP never stops. At the peak, before the current pandemic, 2 million people took to the streets to protest in June last year.
The CCP’s Mentality
You might wonder: What are they battling for? Why do they fight each other? What is at stake?
Before answering these questions, let’s watch a 2-minute video first. It is a speech made by CCP general Xu Yan at the “2018 Annual Meeting of National Famous Teachers' Workshop Union” in China. Nearly 2000 educators and students attended that conference. The English subtitles are translated and added by me.
I have to say this short 2-minute speech tells us a lot. That’s how the CCP looks at the people of Hong Kong, and that’s also how the CCP looks at the people of the free world. At the deepest level of CCP’s conscience and sub-conscience, any human being who thinks differently, who cannot be controlled is an enemy of the CCP. They don’t accept people who have different values, or who cannot be turned into slaves.
That’s why ever since Hong Kong was transferred to the CCP, the CCP has been feeling that this place, and the people of this place, are like a thorn in its back.
For example, after the CCP decided to crack down on Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation and self-improvement system, in 1999, and threw hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in jail, or murdered them by harvesting their organs, you virtually cannot see any Falun Gong practitioners publicly practicing Falun Gong exercises in China anymore, although many of them are still practicing at home. So the CCP can declare victory over Falun Gong.
However, in Hong Kong, Falun Gong practitioners can still be seen everywhere, and they actively organize all sorts of activities to raise awareness of the persecution in China and to expose the CCP’s anti-humanity crimes.
So, this is also a thorn in CCP’s flesh.
Another thing the CCP hates very much about Hong Kong is that Hong Kong still has freedom of speech. Many books and publications that criticize the CCP, or talk about the crimes and scandals of the CCP leaders, can be published and sold in Hong Kong, and many mainland Chinese people especially travel to Hong Kong to buy them and then take them back to China.
The CCP has made such tremendous efforts to control information and free speech in China, how can it allow this to happen in Hong Kong?
That is why the CCP cannot wait for 50 years to turn Hong Kong into a colony of its own.
On the other hand, people of Hong Kong have enjoyed freedom and prosperity as part of the free and civilized world. They can not bear to have their freedom taken away.
Let’s also watch a 2-minute video to learn how people of Hong Kong feel and think. The lyrics of the video go like this:
When you choose to travel far
You'll have to always march forward
When you choose brightness
You must break free from the darkness.
When you choose honor
You must conquer fear
When you choose faith
You'll have to defend it with life
Goodwill alone cannot defeat the evil
Justice must have an iron fist of its own
If the civilized world didn't have the weapon of justice
This world would have long been devastated
Freedom won't fall from the sky
We must fight for it
If people of Hong Kong don't fight today
Tomorrow we'll become slaves of the CCP
Without land, without freedom
Without rights, without dignity.
Only exploitation and slavery generations after generations
And we'll be forced to thank the CCP
Not Compatible
I believe after watching this video, as well as listening to what people of Hong Kong think, you will understand that the values and the mentality of CCP and people of the free world are totally different, and are completely opposite to each other.
In this sense, CCP’s social system is not “compatible” with that of the free world. Although people in the free world might think we can “co-exist” with the CCP, the CCP doesn’t think they can co-exist with the free world. That is the fundamental reason why they must kill the “One Country, Two Systems” in front of the entire world.
Why Now?
Another question to ask is: Why did the CCP choose to push this agenda NOW?
On May 22, the day when the CCP announced that it would push forward the “National Security Law”, CCP’s mouthpiece the People Daily published an article saying that “Hong Kong must not be allowed to become a loophole in terms of national security”.
On the following day, May 23, the People Daily published another article saying that the “anti-China politicians” in the West are recklessly interfering with Hong Kong’s affairs because of the “national security” “loophole” in Hong Kong. So the central government cannot allow an "undefended” Hong Kong to exist anymore.
We can say that is the official explanation of the CCP.
Other “unofficial” theories are:
To Divert Attention
Faced with mounting pressure from the international world of holding the CCP accountable for the pandemic, the CCP desperately needed something to divert attention. If they succeed, they win, it’s a bonus for them. Even if they don’t succeed in passing the law, they are still successful as they’ve opened up another battlefield to divert the world’s attention. So it is a careful calculation for the CCP. They have nothing to lose, although Hong Kong will be a victim. They don’t care about Hong Kong anymore, as it is causing too many headaches.
To Prevent the Potential Disgraceful Failure in Legislative Council Election
Another theory is, Hong Kong will soon have its Legislative Council election, that is, in September this year, only about 3 months away.
In last year’s local elections in Hong Kong, as well as this year’s Taiwanese presidential election, pro-CCP figures or parties lost very badly and disgracefully. People regard both elections as referendums on the public's choices: both people of Hong Kong and Taiwan voted a big fat “No” for the CCP.
So, the CCP worried that if it didn’t take some dramatic measures to crack down on Hong Kong, it would lose bitterly again in the upcoming Legislative Council election. If that happens, it means the CCP will lose its control over Hong Kong in many ways. So the CCP must stop that no matter what.
The CCP Cannot Help Itself From Doing Evil
My own theory is that it is pointless to try to figure out why and how the CCP would do something, as CCP’s mentality is not something that normal human beings can fathom. Why do I say so?
When anything is created, it is given a purpose or a mission. For example, when we create a cup, we want to use it to drink water. When we create a pen, we want to use it to write.
When the evil specter of Communism was created, it was given a mission to destroy humankind. Period.
So while we would imagine that a normal government, a normal political party in a normal society would consider social consequences when making decisions, the CCP won’t.
I doubt sometimes the CCP leaders, when controlled by the evil specter behind them, cannot help themselves from doing evil or mad things. I think we have already seen enough examples of this.
Therefore, instead of trying to figure out what is in the CCP’s mind, we should first see through its evil nature, then accept the fact that it can not be changed for better, and then act proactively to stop it from doing more evil, and to defeat and remove it from this planet of ours.
If we don’t, if we let the CCP get away with creating such a tremendous catastrophe for mankind, what else will the CCP not do? If we allow the CCP to kill Hong Kong’s freedom, its next target will be Taiwan and the world.
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5/26/2020
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