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Criticism and tagging of the Cultural Revolution is just another kind of radicalism

2021-03-02T23:13:38.826Z


Liu Liqun, who was recently promoted to the Permanent Secretary of the Food and Health Bureau, and Liu Yan, the Permanent Secretary of the Financial Services and the Treasury (Treasury), were attacked by many establishments. Some people described Hong Kong as a cultural revolution-style criticism.


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2021-03-03 07:00

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Liu Liqun, who was recently promoted to the Permanent Secretary of the Food and Health Bureau, and Liu Yan, the Permanent Secretary of the Financial Services and the Treasury (Treasury), were attacked by many establishments. Some people described Hong Kong as a cultural revolution-style criticism.

This kind of political critique, which is similar to "fighting against the left", is both boring and meaningless. It will also hinder Hong Kong's comprehensive reforms in the post-amendment, post-epidemic, and post-national security law era, and make society out of focus.

Director of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Liu Liqun, was recently promoted to the Permanent Secretary of the Food and Health Bureau. Later, the pro-organizational media attacked her, including accusing her of failing to deal with the "Lennon Wall" quickly during the anti-regulation campaign the year before, and questioning her husband. , Cai Haiwei, Chief Executive Officer of the Social Federation, is a "yellow silk" and therefore does not meet the "Patriot" standard.

After the government announced that Liu Liqun was promoted to the Permanent Secretary of the Food and Health Bureau, the establishment camp groups, websites, and the media launched attacks.

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Patriotic don’t have to go online

During Liu Liqun’s tenure, whether the Food and Health Department was ineffective in handling the "Lennon Wall" can be discussed. However, as the Executive Council Member and Legislative Council Member Ye Liu Shuyi pointed out, the Department did not take action until the end of the relevant litigation. Don't over speculate.

Public opinion accused her of being a "yellow silk" and not meeting the standards of a "patriot" on the grounds that her husband was Cai Haiwei, and she went online.

Hong Kong needs to be governed by patriots, and the boundaries of patriotism include the inability to support Hong Kong independence and the inability to approve actions aimed at overthrowing the Chinese Communist regime.

But patriotism is by no means "fighting against the left," and it should not be used to make articles and stigmatize it.

As the late national leader Deng Xiaoping mentioned, after 1997, the people in charge of Hong Kong "Of course there must be left-wing people, as few as possible, but also right-wing people, and it is best to choose more people in the middle." The spectrum of Hong Kong Patriots has a certain breadth.

However, some people seem to be taking advantage of the central government's efforts to improve the "patriots ruling Hong Kong" system to start unnecessary political struggles.

In addition to Liu Liqun being sniped, Liu Yan, Permanent Secretary of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (Treasury), was also accused of wearing masks with the "5" and "1" trademarks, and thus supported violent protesters.

However, the Salvation Company, which is responsible for making the mask, explained in December last year that the trademark is composed of the two letters "S" and "W" of the company's English name "Savewo" abbreviated as "Savewo". There is no political connotation in it.

After Liu Yan was criticized, the person in charge of the mask company said that the incident was turning into a "ridiculous literary hell."

Liu Yan (left) said that the budgets of various government departments must be approved by the legislature before they can work properly.

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Beware of political speculators

Feng Weiguang, the news coordinator in the first term of Chief Executive Liang Zhenying, has also been very active recently. He has successively written articles in Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, Orange News and HKG Newspaper. He mainly criticized government officials at the directorate level and members of the administrative ranks, and gave administrative officials the largest deduction. The "anti-China" political party has also labelled Hong Kong independence on the cabinet of the CUHK Student Union.

The bureaucratic culture of civil servants should be abolished, but the method of labeling is obviously meaningless.

Moreover, Feng Weiguang advocates that the administrative officials' personnel files should be handed over to the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office and the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China. The promotion requires the approval of the two offices, which undoubtedly violates the principle of "one country, two systems" of Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong and a high degree of autonomy.

If the promotion of AO has to do things like others, what else does the Secretary for Civil Service have to do?

Ip Liu Shuyi recently quoted the opinions of administrative officials, indirectly implying that Hong Kong is setting off a storm of the Cultural Revolution and is worried that it may affect the effective operation of the government.

If some people speculate on politics, they are actually undermining the governance of the Hong Kong government and even affecting the work that the central government is advancing. The society will definitely see it.

Ye Liu Shuyi held injustices for Liu Liqun on social networking sites.

(Screenshot of Ye Liu Shuyi's fb page)

No need to fight yellow and fight left

In the past, Shao Shanbo, the former chief adviser of the Central Strategy Group, who was known as the "Left King", recently suggested that "overkill" should not be "overkilled" when commenting on the local election system, so as not to make Hong Kong "patients become dead." His statement is worthy of Hong Kong people's reflection.

In the past two years, society has fallen into a state of polarization, largely because people from different camps have taken political stances over everything. For example, some "yellow silks" are keen on "fighting against pornography" and frequently criticize the pan-people for "compromising" and "kneeling down." , Threatened to kill all sympathizers of the establishment and the government.

Nowadays, some people in the establishment camp are also trying to find targets for attacks. To put it bluntly, they are "fighting against the left." They are also dividing society.

After a period of restlessness in Hong Kong, what is needed now is to prevent the re-emergence of extremist forces and return the society to a stable state with centrists as the main body, rather than a shift of "preferring the left to the right", let alone "fighting the left." Criticism of the Cultural Revolution.

Society should not think that only the democrats have radical forces, and that if there are speculators in the establishment, they want to fish in troubled waters, or even mess up the overall situation.

Although the latter did not use violence, the radical nature may not be very different, and society needs to be vigilant.

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