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Written by: Yang Chinese
2020-05-24 23:20
Last update date: 2020-05-24 23:24The National People's Congress announced that the agenda for this year's meeting includes the establishment of the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" for Hong Kong, which will be included in Annex III of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and will be directly exercised in Hong Kong. This will cast a shock bomb in Hong Kong and the international community. Some media and experts have published articles that partly pointed out that China's patience for Hong Kong is lost, and the central government should strengthen its control over Hong Kong and express its concerns about the future of Hong Kong.
The American Cable News Network (CNN) posted on the Internet on May 22 Joy Park, the legal adviser of the Human Rights Foundation and led the Hong Kong Desk (Hong Kong Desk), saying that China has theoretically respected "one country, two systems" for many years. However, Hong Kong ’s The illusion of autonomy has officially broken.
Joy Park is titled "Another Hong Kong: Will China's Democratic Enclave Become a Mainland?" "(The other Hong Kong: Will China's democratic enclave become just like the mainland?) Article pointed out that Chinese President Xi Jinping is tired of pretending to have any form of autonomy in Hong Kong. Under his rule, the Communist Party will cut off the connection between Hong Kong and the international community, so that the democratic movement in Hong Kong will lose momentum, giving the Chinese government more room to put an end to the reduced freedom in Hong Kong.
Joy Park pointed out that if the international community no longer pays attention to the struggle of Hong Kong, it will soon become the "another Hong Kong" envisaged by the Communist Party and dedicated to construction.
Pictured is Kong Jierong, a law professor at New York University. (Picture of Kong Jierong's blog)
Professor Jerome Cohen, a professor at the New York University School of Law, director of the Asian American Law Institute at the New York University School of Law, and a senior adjunct researcher at the Foreign Relations Committee, pointed out in a blog dated May 23 that the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" was clearly It's not the Beijing government's preferred approach, but it shows its despair.
He pointed out that doing so in China today is certainly regarded as a clever trick. When the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress interprets the Basic Law, it will inevitably lead to greater distrust in the public than ever before. For the central government and the people of Hong Kong, the political cost will be very high.
He believes that China's doing this is not the official end of "one country, two systems", but it will be fatal to the current and meaningful system, and a system where many people are misled to give hope.
"Wall Street Journal": National Security Law removes the legal boundary between China and Hong Kong
The Wall Street Journal described in an editorial that the introduction of Hong Kong by the Chinese government was reflected by the National Security Act, and Beijing began to take over Hong Kong forcibly and threatened Taiwan more and more. The report believes that once the National Security Law is implemented in Hong Kong, it will result in the removal of the legal boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China. Therefore, to prevent the situation from happening, Beijing officials must be made aware of the serious costs involved.
The people of Hong Kong may feel that there is no other way but to demonstrate that they are aware of the risk of arrest and imprisonment. Even if they may fail, they still reveal the ugly side of Beijing to the world.
According to reports, Chinese President Xi Jinping has always wanted the world to believe that China is a good power that complies with global rules, but the situation in Hong Kong and Taiwan shows the nature of the Chinese Communist regime, and the world must also accept the increasing dangers.
Hong Kong political commentator Lewis Lau Yiu-Man published a review article in the New York Times on May 22, referring to the "one country, two systems" system used to protect the city's freedom. In fact, China really uses it to suffocate freedom . In reality, Beijing has armed this system and made it crush the freedom of the city.
He pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party is ambitious, and it is also impatient. It not only wants to control Hong Kong, but also wants to reshape the mind and soul of Hong Kong people.
He pointed out that "one country, two systems" is theoretically formulated to protect the basic rights of Hong Kong people, but the rights of Hong Kong people have been gradually taken away in the name of "one country, two systems." "One country, two systems" is not dead until it is inherently unjust. It has always been like this.
He wrote that "one country, two systems" has been a strategy from the beginning, a tactic used by China to fight for time, and used to absorb Hong Kong, so of course it is sooner or later.
Al Jazeera: China's aerial Hong Kong legislature
Qatar Al Jazeera quoted its reporters as saying that the National Security Law symbolizes Beijing ’s involvement in Hong Kong ’s political situation, and believes that the NPC conference serves as a backdoor to bypass Hong Kong ’s legislative process by amending the Basic Law.
Beijing believes that the pan-ministers have too many objections, so he chooses this method as a symbol of the implementation of power.
The report estimates that the incident may become a turning point for Hong Kong as China's most free and international city. It is expected that local instability will continue unabated.
Voice of Germany: Beijing has lost patience
The "Deutsche Welle" review article pointed out that the national security law controversy symbolizes the Chinese government's unintentional relaxation of the clampdown on Hong Kong, and that the Chinese central government has lost patience, so the Chinese Communist Party intends to force Hong Kong's 7.5 million people to accept the national security law.
Beijing expressed its stance in this incident: Once Hong Kong is in a political stalemate and cannot pass laws supported by Beijing officials, the National People's Congress will use absolute power to pass national laws that apply only to Hong Kong.
The report believes that there will be no objections when the NPC votes, saying that even though there are 36 NPC deputies in Hong Kong, they have close ties with the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese.
"People's Daily" published a comment on May 21, calling the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" an "important measure for maintaining national security" and "a fundamental strategy for maintaining" one country, two systems. "
The review believes that there is no doubt that Hong Kong has become a prominent risk point for national security. The reason why "Hong Kong independence", "black violence", and "speculation" has intensified. At this point, the legal loopholes in national security will not be filled in a day, and the challenges facing "one country, two systems" will become omnipresent.
National security legislation belongs to the central authority. In the case where the national security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is threatened and seriously damaged, and the government of the Special Administrative Region cannot complete the legislation on its own, the central government takes the initiative to carry out relevant legislation at the national level. "One country, two systems" is back on track, putting a seat belt on the implementation of "one country, two systems." The central government took the initiative to fill the legal loopholes and build dams for "one country, two systems." This is both a last resort and a place of power and responsibility.
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Hong Kong version of the National Security Law
