Political situation
Author: Lin Jian Zhou Lixi
2020-05-07 07:00
Last update date: 2020-05-07 07:00The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office issued a press release yesterday (May 6) to comment on the current situation of Hong Kong, referring to the demonstrations during the May Day holiday, criticizing the "black storm" and the "speculation" as political viruses in Hong Kong, and describing it as the enemy of "one country, two systems." The central government will never sit idly by and watch this destructive force. The article mentions 5 times of "scramble" and 15 times of "black storm". Together with the speech made by the Liaison Office of the Chinese People's Liberation Army last weekend, the two offices mentioned the word "scramble" 15 times in a week.
Looking through the records, the term "lanchao" was used by Lian Deng netizens in the early stages of anti-revision demonstrations. It gradually extended to the entire situation in Hong Kong and became a common phrase among some demonstrators. Later, the term was reversed by the established factions, criticizing the behavior of demonstrators and democrats until it entered the official government and even Beijing in recent months, and the connotation also showed subtle changes, mainly from the political level, and began to infiltrate economic and livelihood issues.
Ouyang Weihao (Ben Sir), a former senior lecturer and artist at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at CUHK, pointed out that the word "scramble" is obviously an official offensive of political opinion, used to vilify the behavior of the democrats and demonstrators. As for the response of the democrats, he suggested two measures ...
The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office issued a manuscript on May 6 stating that "black storms" will not be removed in one day, and Hong Kong will be restless in one day. The term "scramble" was mentioned five times in the article. (Screenshot of the press release of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office)
After the 69 march last year, even the "I want to speculate" users appeared
"Lanchao" in Cantonese means "together to the end" and "to burn with jade". Ben Sir, who has been studying Cantonese for many years, pointed out that the word "lanchao" was originally used in poker games: "You don't get a card, you have to double-double, triple-fry, and four-fry, but if you get multiple people together, You can lose the big wok. "
On June 10 last year, the day after the 69 march, a user named "I want to scramble" in the Liandeng discussion area called on netizens to cooperate to cancel the foreign passports of government officials and the establishment. Later, "Lanba" posted many times, launched various offensives against senior officials and formed factions, and brought the voice to the world. Afterwards, the relevant team of "Lanba" also initiated many meetings related to anti-revision.
The word "lanchao" later became a common phrase for some demonstrators and was extended to a political proposition. In short, they believe that the core values of Hong Kong have been destroyed after the fierce demonstrations by the police and the "government violated the human rights and freedoms of the citizens", so they spared no harm to themselves and allowed the social chaos to continue, making the government pay even if it successfully suppressed the demonstration The heavy price has even forced the PLA to dispatch to eliminate the strategic role of Hong Kong's "white gloves" in Beijing and achieve the effect of "If we burn, you burn with us". Some democrats will also laugh at Chief Executive Lin Zheng Yuee as the "mother of speculation", describing her as the source of the chaos in Hong Kong today.
In the wave of anti-revision routine demonstrations last year, some demonstrators advocated "sponsoring speculation." (Profile picture)
The formed faction used the term "scramble" to fight back
The slogan "Lanchao" was widely circulated, and the pro-establishment camp seized the negative meaning of "together to the end" and launched a public offensive against the demonstrators, using the spear of the child and the shield of the child. In August last year, the "Guide to the Protection of Hong Kong" launched the "Anti-Violence, Save Hong Kong" rally in Tamar Park, Admiralty. At that time, Tan Yaozong, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, expressed the hope that through the rally, the community would refuse to "speculate". Many members of the establishment who attended the day, such as Wu Qiubei, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions, and Chen Yong, deputy chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, all made a speech.
Later, Liang Zhenying, the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who has been actively commenting on political affairs on Facebook, also referred to "scramble". In September, he published an article late in the night saying that students from the Baptist University demanded to negotiate with the principal Qian Dakang and failed to use bricks to smash the door of the principal ’s office. He criticized Qian Dakang for not condemning the violence of the students, accusing him of being the principal, " People who think they can win applause from the students will eventually stir up speculation. "It can be seen that the" strange speculation "at the time was just a simple negative word for the establishment school, which was used to criticize the demonstrators. When the two parties use this word, the meaning is not exactly the same.
The act of procrastinating the election of the chairman of the internal council by the democratic factions was approved as a "political speculation" by the two offices. (Profile picture)
"Lan Chao" entered the official caliber to link the economy and people's livelihood
Later, anti-revisional demonstrations followed the passage of the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" by the United States, demonstrators were arrested on a large scale, and even the democrats "changed" in the district board elections. The scale was greatly reduced. Not as good as before, but the establishment faction never stopped using this term to condemn demonstrations, and even politically appointed officials joined the war. The Financial Secretary Chen Maobo mentioned this term in his blog in January of this year, and linked the "scramble" that originally meant political wrestling to the economic downturn, trying to urge the valley middle class and the grassroots to resent the demonstrations.
On March 25 this year, Yang Yueqiao, the leader of the Citizen Party, publicly stated that if the democratic faction obtains more than half of the seats in the parliament, in October, one month after the election, the Chief Executive Lin Zheng Yue'e will implement the so-called "five major demands" in the policy address. "Otherwise, Citizen MPs will veto all government bills, bills, and appropriations, including the appointment of the chief judge of the Court of Final Appeal, and the future budget. This remark is regarded as an expression of "scramble". The establishment camp also took advantage of the fire, and the controversial torch was reignited. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and the Central Liaison Office issued a statement on April 13 criticizing the CCP Guo Rongkeng and other democratic parties who chaired the election process for the chairman of the internal meeting , Referring to their behavior as "political speculation," and since then "speculation" has become the target of the formed camp to attack the pan-population.
The two offices mentioned 15 "scramble" in one week
The Liaison Office issued a document on May 2 to criticize this year's "May Day" demonstrations, referring to the demonstrations that besieged the government and public institutions since last year, describing it as "violent speculation", and referring to the opposition and radical forces as political and private interests. Inciting "black violence", the article mentions the term "scramble" 10 times. Together with the latest announcement from the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, the central government agencies used 15 "scrambles" in a week to criticize the behavior of the democrats and demonstrators.
Ben Sir analyzed that the democrats can oppose the hat of speculation in response to the public opinion operation of "scramble speculation", or change the meaning of "scramble speculation" in two ways. (Profile picture)
Ben Sir teaches two countermeasures: counter-buckle, change meaning
Ben Sir Ouyang Weihao pointed out that the establishment party tends to use the slogan "scramble" to create a negative image of the hostile camp. He replied: "There are many words in Mainland China that can express the meaning of" scramble ", but why not use Putonghua instead of Cantonese?" Therefore, he believes that mainland officials intend to convey this message to Hong Kong people, Guide the people to dislike the democrats.
As for the response of the democrats, Ben Sir believes that there are two directions: First, the “capture speculation” hat is reversed to the establishment faction, and the creation of the establishment faction and the government are the people who most want Hong Kong speculation; The second is to change the meaning of "scramble" and make it less negative. It may be said that the current situation in Hong Kong is quite bad, and it has lost nothing. It has to burn with the enemy's jade to reduce the damage to its allies and create "strength." Sacrifice.
He Anda analyzed that "scramble" is not the idea of mainstream Huang Ying people. Beijing's approach seems to be intentionally exaggerated to achieve a certain political purpose. (Profile picture)
He Anda: "Lan Chao" was not mainstream
The former government news coordinator He Anda analyzed that the real "scramble" is to bring everything back to Hong Kong and the operation is completely halted, but he doubts that this will be the proposition of most democratic and Huangying supporters. "If it's really speculation, then it should not completely help the business, but Jiaqu (Huangying) is also tightening the yellow economy circle."
Therefore, He Anda believes that "scramble" is just the idea of a more radical group of people in Huang Ying, but Beijing's approach is to deny some democratic behaviors, such as delaying the election of the chairman of the Legislative Council, rejection and violent behavior. Xi et al. Expanded to "all speculation in Hong Kong". He analyzed that this set of operations on political language is a routine left over from the era of the Cultural Revolution, that is, exaggerating the behavior of opponents, putting on a hat, and then fighting it down.
However, He Anda predicts that this strategy will not have much effect in the end, and even further provoke the general public's resentment against the government: "In fact, Beijing has not understood the problem, and it really intensified the Hong Kong people's resistance. However, the Hong Kong government responded today that it is not good to say that an independent investigation should be undertaken and an independent review should be undertaken without even a person ’s name. ”He predicted that the popular sentiment since the anti-amendment law was not dissipated last year, but was only slightly blocked by the epidemic. The struggle will quickly reappear on the streets.
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Hong Kong and Macao Office Liaison Office Anti-repair demonstration Ben Sir (Ouyang Weihao)