Chinese Plans to Destroy Democracy in Hong Kong

An excellent article from William Yang documenting the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to destroy liberty and democracy in Hong Kong:

On Monday, Xia Bao-long, the director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, gave a speech that highlighted the importance of ensuring Hong Kong’s democratic development doesn’t deviate from the principle of “letting patriots run Hong Kong.” He said the most important and urgent task now is to “strengthen the relevant mechanisms,” and these efforts need to be led by the central government.
“The most vital and pressing task to enforce rules by patriots is to improve the relevant systems, particularly the relevant electoral system,” Xia said in the speech. “Being patriotic means loving the People’s Republic of China.”

He also said authorities must close loopholes that allow “anti-China troublemakers” into politics. “Improving the relevant electoral system must be led by the central government,” he added.

Xia laid out the criteria for what makes a “real patriot,” including love for the People’s Republic of China, its constitution, and the Communist Party of China. He said members of the judiciary should also be patriots, which could be viewed as a warning to those who worry that Hong Kong’s judicial independence might come under pressure from Beijing.

The only patriots of China appear to be loyalists of the Chinese Communist Party. This is because there is no democratic heritage in Communist China, just a one-party system with a very specific agenda that masquerades as a democracy.

While the details are not yet clear, this analysis has been provided:

“Beijing will exclude political forces regarded as non-patriotic through electoral reform,” Choy said. “They will be excluded from participating in elections and public institutions.”
Even though Xia emphasized in the speech that “One Country Two Systems” is still the foundation of how China manages Hong Kong, Choy thinks that Beijing definitely puts a lot more emphasis on the “one country” than the “two systems.”
As for what kind of people will be deemed as “non-patriots,” Choy thinks politicians who have clear anti-CCP or pro-Hong Kong independence stances or those who are accused of colluding with foreign power could be easily considered as “non-patriots.”

https://williamyang-35700.medium.com/top-chinese-official-revealed-plans-to-overhaul-hong-kongs-electoral-system-cb645636d08a

Good luck to our friends in Hong Kong & everyone who wants true democracy but suffers in the Sinosphere.

@Philokalia

Single-party states never long tolerate dissent.

Taiwan should be wary.

@moonbus said
@Philokalia

Single-party states never long tolerate dissent.

Taiwan should be wary.

exactly.

I think Taiwan will be the startup of a war that will likely involve the US and possibly, the UK.

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You don't want Hong Kong to have Democracy because:

- You are a loyalist to the Chinese Communist Party
- China cannot & will never have Democracy
- "Hong Kong is China"

Thus, one of the most "liberal" and "progressive" posters here, haranguing all of the Americans about racial politics & social justice, ultimately is anti-democratic, anti-liberal, and against the basic human rights for Chinese.

But she attempts to distract us by bringing up colonialism.

WW3 cometh 🤗

@Philokalia

Well said.

You are 100% right about her.

Please note, Duchess has attempted to "talk" about Chinese plans to destroy democracy in Hong Kong by

- Bringing up British colonialism
- Bringing up Taiwan

She refuses to acknowledge what will actually be happening in the Hong Kong government due to these policies, and how these policies themselves are anti-democratic & totalitarian, and reflective of Chinese Communism.

Nobody should take anything she says about social justice or democracy in the West seriously.

Either she must duly criticize Chinese Communist totalitarianism, and then be taken seriously as a poster, or she must abandon her criticisms of the West, and then be properly understood as a ChiCom loyalist whose chief act is providing a shallow propaganda puppet show to distract us from the bitter realities about human rights violations in China.

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No. But British racist rule over Hong Kong says nothing about China’s plans to destroy its fledgling democracy.

Just because Britain was a bad girl, doesn’t mean you can’t criticise China’s behaviour.

I don’t see you offering Israel the same leniency: “Oh, the Nazis were bad to the Jews, so Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians...”

The Palestinians were conquered.

Quite easily actually 🤔

A stroke of a pen lmao 🤣