The past week has never been quiet.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (also translated as Pelosi, Pelosi or Polosi) visited Taiwan for 19 hours, but China did not send the People's Liberation Army to shoot down, intercept or escort the other side's special plane, but after she left It took military countermeasures against Taiwan beyond the "96 Missile Crisis", and blocked the whole island for live ammunition training for several days.
Civil opinion on both sides of the strait is polarized. One side is discouraged because of the temporary failure of the "Wu Reunion" expectation, while the other side mocks "the other side's mouthpiece" and "the United States is more reliable", and there are also many people in Hong Kong who think they belong to a "community of destiny" with Taiwan. Dancing with the wind.
However, these mockers seem to have not learned the lessons of the 2019 anti-amendment turmoil, completely underestimating the CCP's determination to achieve national reunification and to manage the complex situation. I am afraid that they will only be constantly pulled by "imagination" and "reality". I don't know how much tossing I have to go through in "losing myself".
On August 2, 2022, the special plane of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport and landed. The Taipei 101 building behind it was lit up, displaying the words "TW<3US", which means "Taiwan Loves America".
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Are Hong Kong's lessons not profound enough?
At 10 p.m. last Tuesday (August 2), the Taipei 101 building flashed the words "TW<3US", which means "Taiwan loves the United States"; 43 minutes later, Pelosi's special plane landed at Taipei Songshan Airport. Taiwan's foreign affairs department Wu Zhaoxie, the chief executive, was present at the reception.
Early the next morning, Pelosi visited the "Legislative Yuan" and the "Presidential Palace" to meet with representatives of the four major political parties and leader Tsai Ing-wen. It is reported that she will also meet with Wu'er Kaixi, a mainland "89 pro-democracy activist", and Taiwan's NGO work. Li Mingzhe, owner of Causeway Bay Bookstore in Hong Kong, and others discussed the "Chip and Science Act" passed by the US Congress earlier with Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC; Pelosi's special plane left Songshan Airport at 6 pm, ending the 19-hour visit station itinerary.
In just 19 hours, it will not be easy for Pelosi and his party and Tsai Ing-wen, otherwise the former will not deliberately bypass the South China Sea airspace, and the latter will not dare to say "until the official meeting with the other party." A warm welcome".
However, China is not as populist as the online public opinion exaggerates - neither did it send the People's Liberation Army to shoot down, intercept or escort the other party's special plane before Pelosi landed, nor did it interfere with the other party's itinerary during Pelosi's visit; In the next 5 minutes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the spokesperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Ministry of National Defense, the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command issued a statement of severe condemnation, and continued on the island from last Thursday. "Joint military operations" were carried out in at least six surrounding airspaces and waters, including organizing live-fire drills and flying over the centerline of the Taiwan Strait.
The Taiwan Strait crisis continues to escalate, but people on both sides of the strait have reacted to two extremes.
Mainland netizens shouted "disappointment" because the long-awaited "unification of Taiwan" by many people has not happened yet; in sharp contrast, Taiwanese netizens were elated, and some even ridiculed "the other side's mouth cannons" and "wolves again". Here,” and “the United States is more reliable”; and in Hong Kong, which believes that it belongs to a “community of destiny” with Taiwan, there are also many people who dance with the wind and make fun of “the People’s Liberation Army, like the squires, can’t cross the sea” (distributed on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon). , Taxi drivers in the New Territories are generally limited to Victoria Harbour and are reluctant to take passengers to the other side).
However,
for Hong Kong, which has experienced the turmoil against the amendment bill in 2019, every sarcasm is actually very heavy, because many people in Hong Kong underestimated the determination of the CCP to unify the country and the determination to control the situation, thinking that they only need to commit themselves for a while Acting as an "American pawn" can be exchanged for the "revolution of the times". As a result, the central government is forced to use "full governance" to carry out a "dimension reduction attack"
- first personally formulate the "Hong Kong National Security Law", and then revise the Hong Kong electoral system , reshaped the space of "high degree of autonomy"; and those leaders who used to cheer for American politicians, either went to jail or fled overseas, leaving behind a group of "believers" pulled by "imagination" and "reality"— - Isn't Hong Kong's lesson profound enough?
China has blocked the whole island for live ammunition drills for several days in a row.
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Trying to "co-governance between China and the United States" ends up hurting myself
Looking back at the political turmoil caused by the revision of the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance three years ago, which turned into countless clashes between the police and the people, and lasted for nearly 10 months, is it not like the radical forces in Hong Kong are like the Taiwan authorities, saying that "the enemy of the enemy is a friend." As a strategic thinking - thinking that the CCP is its own "enemy" and the United States is the "enemy" of the CCP, so the United States has become its "friend" - so they are willing to act as "chess pieces" for American politicians to restrict the CCP, and some people even delusionally seek The new political pattern of "co-governance between China and the United States" is expected to be embraced by the Western democratic world under the aegis of the United States.
The most ridiculous among them is that the local extremist forces are actively developing the so-called "international front", repeatedly urging the international community led by the United States to "sanction China" and "speculate Hong Kong", with the intention of putting pressure on the SAR government and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China— —
On November 19, 2019, the U.S. Senate passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The next day, the House of Representatives cut through the mess, eliminating the process of integrating the drafts of the two chambers and directly passing the Senate version of the bill, requiring the U.S. to sanction "China for violating human rights in Hong Kong." and Hong Kong officials”, and review annually whether Hong Kong still has the conditions to maintain a unique trade relationship with the United States; on March 7, 2020, seven members of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council were invited to attend the “U.S. "Hong Kong Exchange Conference", at the meeting, pro-democracy MPs Mok Nai-kwong, Leung Kai-cheong and Tam Man-ho urged the U.S. side to announce the implementation details of the "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" as soon as possible.
Within a week after that, more than 50 organizations, including the "Hong Kong Public Records" and the international affairs delegation of the tertiary and academic circles, jointly signed a letter to the then US Secretary of State Pompeo, requesting the activation of the sanctions mechanism; on July 14, 2020, the then US President Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, formally authorizing Washington to sanction central and Hong Kong government officials, institutions and banks that have business dealings with the so-called "damages to Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy", and revoke the "Hong Kong Policy Act" since 1992 " and treat Hong Kong as a "special customs territory".
Although "Separate customs territory" is actually granted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the unilateral cancellation of the United States will only affect the limited import and export trade between Hong Kong and the United States, these news are enough to make The local resistance forces are very excited, thinking that they can use the "long-arm jurisdiction" of the United States to intervene in Hong Kong affairs, and continue to indulge in these self-indulgent tricks.
But they never thought deeply about whether the US, with its righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, really wants to help Hong Kong, or is it just to contain China by hyping up Hong Kong issues?
When the U.S. revokes special treatment for Hong Kong on the grounds that Hong Kong has lost a "high degree of autonomy", that is, it uses one kind of freedom restriction against another kind of freedom restriction, and one kind of injury against another kind of injury, is this support for Hong Kong? Or a blow to Hong Kong?
Looking back at the political turmoil caused by the revision of the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance three years ago, which turned into countless clashes between the police and the people, and lasted for nearly 10 months, is it not like the radical forces in Hong Kong are like the Taiwan authorities, saying that "the enemy of the enemy is a friend." Think strategically.
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Politician hypocrisy incites populism to extremes
What is even more disgusting is that some people are well aware of the hypocrisy of American politicians, but they willingly choose to turn a blind eye to Trump and others' acts of despising democracy, ignoring freedom, violating human rights, and undermining the rule of law, thinking that as long as they are also "anti-China and anti-Communist", It is expected to "support", "vent anger" for Hong Kong, which is "oppressed by the CCP", and even "save Hong Kong".
The result of populism and ignorance, sad and ridiculous.
On the one hand, a special administrative region directly under the Central People's Government has even raised its hands to seek sanctions from the United States, and even attempted to create "Sino-American co-governance", which obviously lacks correct constitutional knowledge and political ethics. According to Max Weber's "Political Ethics Theory", he only acts according to the "ethics of belief" and fails to fulfill the "ethics of responsibility", and as a result, he can only indulge in the illusory excitement of "democratic freedom".
On the other hand, some people always threaten that "Hong Kong should establish a sense of subjectivity and resist the CCP's comprehensive governance." But to become a vassal of the United States in order to resist China, is this a manifestation of the establishment of a sense of subjectivity?
Or are they just building up the illusion of being a member of the liberal camp, sacrificing their own identity?
Faced with the increasingly out-of-control clashes between the police and the people on the streets of Hong Kong, the local extremists' "Unite the United States to fight the Communist Party", and the incitement of American politicians, there are continuing voices in the mainland that want the central government to intervene strongly, including directly stationing the People's Liberation Army to suppress the chaos; however, the central government has not Acting rashly with populist voices, he instructed the SAR government to "stop violence and chaos and restore order", and follow the concept of "governing Hong Kong according to the law" of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and gradually promote Hong Kong "from chaos to rule"——
On October 31, 2019, the communique of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China mentioned "establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanism for the special administrative region to safeguard national security", and soon this work was included in the legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the coming year; 2020 In mid-May of 2008, during the National People's Congress, the National People's Congress passed a resolution to "establish and improve the legal system and enforcement mechanism for special administrative regions to safeguard national security"; 42 days later, on June 30, the NPC Standing Committee unanimously approved the "China The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (commonly known as the "Hong Kong National Security Law") was included in Annex III of the Basic Law. The SAR government officially gazetted it late that night to prevent, stop and punish secession and subversion in Hong Kong. Crimes endangering national security such as state power, terrorist activities, collusion with foreign countries or foreign forces.
The emergence of the "Hong Kong National Security Law" has indeed contributed to the result of "stopping violence and chaos". For example, the illegal conflicts that were "blooming everywhere" have been significantly reduced.
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Forcing the CCP to reduce dimensionality and crack down on leading changes
Although many people are reluctant to admit it, the emergence of the "Hong Kong National Security Law" has indeed contributed to the result of "stopping violence and chaos". For example, the illegal conflicts that "bloomed everywhere" have been significantly reduced, and some separatist leaders suspected of advocating separatism have also Fleeing overseas, the binary opposition of "democracy VS establishment" was also shuffled, officially saying goodbye to "opposition politics"——
47 pan-democratic cadres were charged with "conspiracy to subvert state power" for organizing or participating in "35+ primary elections". , established the principle of "patriots ruling Hong Kong", expanded the composition scale and constituencies of the "Election Committee" and the "Legislative Council", but also strengthened the qualification examination system and reduced the proportion of directly elected seats. After the general election of the Legislative Council at the end of last year, there were 90 seats. Among them, only New Thinking Di Zhiyuan calls himself a "democratic faction"; the Legislative Council passed the "Public Offices (Candidates and Serving) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2021," which required the oath of allegiance. The original 479-seat District Council had 260 A pan-democratic congressman resigned first, and 49 others were disqualified by the government after taking the oath; the pan-democratic-led civil society almost disintegrated. Infighting continues, the Civic Party is fragmented, and the New Democratic Alliance has disappeared; media boss Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned for his involvement in multiple "anti-revision" and "anti-national security" cases, and Apple Daily, which he founded 26 years ago, was involved in Instead, the assets of the national security officials were frozen, which led to poor turnover and suspension of publications.
In this process of "going from chaos to governance", no matter how many senseless sanctions the US government adopts, how many misunderstandings of "one country, two systems" are created, and no matter what extreme voices appear in the mainland and Hong Kong to urge the authorities to directly administer Hong Kong,
the central government Always firmly grasp the leading power and pace of change in Hong Kong, and systematically reshape Hong Kong step by step
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After two years of "setting things right", President Xi Jinping came to Hong Kong earlier to attend the inauguration ceremony of the sixth-term SAR government and put forward new requirements for governing Hong Kong, including improving governance, enhancing development momentum, resolving people's problems and difficulties, and maintaining harmony and stability.
However, in the face of the drastic social changes, many people still feel confused, entangled, uncomfortable, and anxious. Some have left their hometowns, and some are walking dead. However, the giant ship of the times has not stopped for them, and Hong Kong is steadily growing. forward.
In the process of Hong Kong's "transition from chaos to governance", no matter how many senseless sanctions the US government adopts, how many misunderstandings of "one country, two systems" are created, and no matter what extreme voices appear in the mainland and Hong Kong to urge the authorities to directly administer Hong Kong, the central government will always Firmly grasp the dominant power and pace of change in Hong Kong.
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People suffer from being manipulated to lose themselves
On the other hand, Taiwan, which is now worshipping the United States and mocking the CCP, is also facing deep-seated structural contradictions such as limited industrial development and unfair distribution structure, but it always thinks that the predicament can be reversed as long as political party rotation is realized. In the passage of time, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, and employment difficulties have deepened; in politics, they are also deeply immersed in the illusion that "democracy and freedom are equal to good governance and good governance". The U.S. can keep “Taiwan’s main body values” by giving and taking and waving its flag with the U.S., but as a result, it pushes itself into a dangerous abyss, constantly provoking the CCP’s patience and bottom line, and disregarding the safety and development interests of the 24 million Taiwanese people.
They would probably retort that Hong Kong is limited by the framework of "one country, two systems" and is different from Taiwan's "constitutional reality"; however, when they regard Taiwan as an "independent regime", they do not understand the Chinese Communist Party's commitment to national rejuvenation and national rejuvenation. What is the strong pursuit of national reunification? It must be known that the emergence of the CCP is based on a very unique awareness of problems. It accepts Marxism in the context of "saving the nation and trying to survive", so any decision will point to this "state-based" value. If The failure to solve the Taiwan issue will make the national cause that Chinese literati have been fighting for since modern times unsustainable; that is to say, no matter what the form, the CCP will fight its last stand, but from the perspective of the "Russian-Ukrainian conflict", the United States will not necessarily Participating in the war for Taiwan shows that the so-called "Taiwan independence" is just baiting the moon in the water, which is really pitiful.
According to the brazenness and insatiable greed of American politicians, it is not difficult to foresee that the Taiwan Policy Act, which claims to "provide security assistance" to Taiwan but is actually "expanding the scope of arms sales", will continue to be hyped, and some "Taiwan independence" elements will continue to be hyped. Irresponsible weaving of the beautiful dream of "establishing diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the United States" - all this seems to be repeating how Hong Kong went astray back then.
But sadly, the United States, which upholds the "spirit of the contract", has never had a clearly visible guiding principle, whether it is for Hong Kong or Taiwan, but based on the political interests of party politicians, it will play "Hong Kong to control China" from time to time. Or the trick of "using Taiwan to control China" has brought the decline of American political wisdom and the bankruptcy of political credit to the public again and again; however, in the end, it is still those who have been trafficked in ideals, provoked populism, become blurred, Common people who have lost themselves.
