Two weeks before the Legislative Council election, Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, delivered a speech, emphasizing that "patriots ruling Hong Kong" is not a "same color" but a "various colors". He also criticized some people in the world for smearing and slandering Hong Kong's electoral system. They can only expose their ignorance, arrogance, and prejudice. "They are not the "top students" in the democratic classroom, and they are not even qualified to be "teachers."
Liu Zhaojia, vice chairman of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, believes that Xia Baolong’s speech was not for "grain votes," but for countering the upcoming democracy summit in the United States, refuting Western attacks on democracy in China and Hong Kong, and highlighting the confidence of the new electoral system and not being open to the outside world. The forces criticized and accepted.
When interviewed by "Hong Kong 01", Liu Zhaojia said that in the past, China seldom confronted the West on democracy issues, but practice shows that Western democracy has fallen into crisis and even brought disasters. From the US government's handling of the new crown epidemic, he knows a thing or two.
He pointed out that Xia Baolong’s speech was intended to echo the Chinese government’s response to the US's smearing of Chinese democracy before the US Democracy Summit, thereby counterattacking it, and highlighting the advantages of the new electoral system to ensure that patriots govern Hong Kong, have broad representation, and be fair. .
Liu Zhaojia pointed out that there are still two weeks before the Legislative Council election. Xia Baolong’s remarks are not meant to push the turnout rate, nor can there be such unrealistic illusions. He reiterated that the focus of the new election system is not how high or low the turnout rate is, but how to achieve Hong Kong. Long-term peace and stability, and to encourage patriotic forces and their supporters to actively vote, "maybe some people think that the establishment has won, so they will not vote. Officials do not want this to happen."
Cai Ziqiang, a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Administration at CUHK, said that the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office delivered a speech in response to the election two weeks before the election. It was rare, reflecting the central government’s emphasis on improving post-election election performance, including turnout.
He believes that Xia Baolong is going to counter the criticism of this election from outside, including overseas.
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