[Epoch Times, December 27, 2021](Interviews and reports by Epoch Times reporters Luo Ya and Cheng Jing) CCP officials interpreted the “Hong Kong Democratic Development” white paper on Monday (27), claiming that everything the central government has done is to save Hong Kong and save democracy It was a motherly trust in Hong Kong people, which caused a great backlash and was denounced as “rogue and shameless.”
The “Democratic Development of Hong Kong under “One Country, Two Systems”” white paper was released on December 20, the day after the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council was held on December 19 under the new electoral system.
The analysis believes that the so-called Hong Kong did not have democracy during the British colonial period. The fact is that the CCP tried its best to prevent Hong Kong from implementing democracy before its return in 1997. The so-called measures taken by the CCP to save Hong Kong are the fact that the CCP is destroying Hong Kong’s freedom, democracy and rule of law, making Hong Kong no longer prosperous. . A large number of Hong Kong people were forced to flee everywhere.
Restoring history: Britain wants to promote democracy in Hong Kong Highly opposed by China
Today (27th), Wang Zhenmin, the vice chairman of the Hong Kong and Macau Research Association of the Communist Party of China, claimed at a white paper briefing held by the State Council Information Office that the United Kingdom did not engage in democracy in Hong Kong for so long, and it suddenly and quickly engage in democracy in such a short period of time before the reunification. Sima Zhaozhi Everyone knows that the white paper reveals their old bottom.
CCP officials made this statement more than once. However, what is history like?
In 2014, some documents published by the National Archives of the United Kingdom showed that since the 1950s, the colonial governor who governed Hong Kong had repeatedly sought to promote popular elections, but was forced to give up due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing. Those efforts.
“The New York Times” once published a long article “Beijing has repeatedly opposed the introduction of elections by the British Hong Kong government” (see here) to tell about this history. At that time, the Chinese Communist Premier Zhou Enlai told a British military officer that anyone who introduced even a small amount of autonomy in Hong Kong Attempts are regarded as “very unfriendly actions” and “conspiracy”.
“The New York Times” said that these threats have achieved the desired effect. In the following decades, Britain did not make much effort to introduce electoral democracy in Hong Kong. In the early 1980s, when the two sides began to discuss the future of Hong Kong, Beijing’s attitude became more intense.
Finally, the then Governor of Hong Kong Patten ignored Beijing’s so-called “democracy will cause chaos” and gave the Hong Kong people the right to elect 30 members of the Legislative Council. Lu Ping, a senior CCP official who was in charge of Hong Kong’s handover affairs at the time, was extremely angry, saying that Patten “had to become Hong Kong’s sinner through the ages in history.”
“The CCP is behind Hong Kong’s failure to implement democracy”
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Li Zhengxiu, an associate researcher of the National Policy Research Foundation, a Taiwanese consortium, pointed out that “the CCP is the man behind Hong Kong’s failure to implement democracy.”
He said that more importantly, in the final stage of the British colonization of Hong Kong, London began to expand the number of electors for the Legislative Council elections, and Hong Kong people gradually formed a sense of citizenship that the people would supervise the Hong Kong government through the Legislative Council.
In the early days of Hong Kong’s return, the CCP basically avoided interfering in Hong Kong affairs and avoided undermining Deng Xiaoping’s one country, two systems promise; but later, Li Zhengxiu said that the CCP could not tolerate the voice of the people, which caused great backlash.
From the 500,000 people protesting against Article 23 in 2003, to the Umbrella Movement in 2014, and to the 1 million people, up to 2 million Hong Kongers, who took to the streets in 2019 to send free citizens to popular elections, they were all met by the CCP once. Strong suppression of times.
The Hong Kong government introduced the “National Security Act” last year and arrested democratic leaders such as Li Zhiying, Li Zhuoren, and Huang Zhifeng in this name, forcing the “Apple Daily” to suspend business and the dissolution of dozens of social groups such as the stakes. The outside world lamented the demise of “One Country, Two Systems”. , A large number of Hong Kong people left their homes.
“Motherly trust”?Scholar: The CCP self-praises itself as a high-pressure dictatorship
Wang Zhenmin claimed today that the central government is so firm and persistent in the policy of “one country, two systems”. The determination, confidence, and patience have never wavered, and the motherly trust in Hong Kong people and young people in Hong Kong has never wavered.
In this regard, well-known writer Cai Shenkun said that the CCP is becoming more and more rascal, not only a rascal, but also shameless! “They not only tell lies, but it is even more shameful to regard lies as truth.”
Li Zhengxiu also believes that the CCP’s so-called salvation of democracy and motherly trust can only be described as a self-praised high-pressure dictatorship, and it cannot be talked about democracy, “because the CCP completely misunderstands the spirit of the democratic system. A party that prides itself on serving the people. , But afraid of criticism from the people, is it not laughable!”
“The CCP once promised universal suffrage for its chief executive, and now it shrinks all electoral power in the hands of a very small number of people. It is not democracy at all, but confiscates democracy and reverses democracy.”
The election of the 7th Legislative Council in Hong Kong on December 19 was the first election after Beijing claimed to “perfect the electoral system,” but the turnout rate reached a record low of only 30.2%; 90 seats were contested by 153 candidates ; Almost all of them were included by the pro-communist parties, and the moderate candidates were almost wiped out.
A large number of democrats were arrested, sentenced, silenced, and “fleeing.” For example, Hong Kong Zhifeng founder Huang Zhifeng, former Legislative Council Member Mao Mengjing, former Legislative Council Member Leung Kwok-hsiung, and former District Council Member Cham Zijie were arrested; former Legislative Council Members Luo Guancong, Xu Zhifeng, Liang Songheng and others went overseas, and many political parties were forced to disband.
Before the election, the Hong Kong government set up a candidature review committee to drive out democratic candidates. Li Zhengxiu said, “Beijing is equivalent to directly determining who is eligible for election, which is tantamount to a birdcage election.”
After the election, the CCP issued a white paper on democracy to cleanse itself, calling itself “all-process people’s democracy.” Li Zhengxiu said, “In fact, it is self-inflicted. In the history of the CCP, it has never consulted the people for any decision, nor dared to be positive. In response to the dissatisfaction of the people, how can we serve the people?”
“The CCP has repeatedly emphasized economic democracy, but it dares not face people’s democracy.” Li Zhengxiu said, in fact, it has revealed the truth that the CCP has no democratic literacy. “Suppressing Hong Kong people to fight for complete democracy does not prove that the CCP is the real violation. A totalitarian government for human development.”
Comment: Hong Kong’s freedom of speech and independent judiciary no longer have
Today, Hong Kong is not only getting farther and farther from democracy. Li Zhengxiu said that even the rule of law that was once proud of freedom has gradually disappeared due to the involvement of the CCP’s black hands.
The mainland writer and critic Li Xi (pseudonym) also told The Epoch Times that Hong Kong was originally a highly free international metropolis.
He said that the basic human rights that Hong Kong people have won over 150 years have been completely deprived, and the rest of the time is left to the CCP to clean up the bloody battlefield. He lamented that the prosperity of Hong Kong no longer exists, the freedom of speech and independent judiciary enjoyed by Hong Kong people no longer exist, and Hong Kong no longer has a future.
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