Chapter 14 Reddening Hong Kong (4)

On November 18, 2019, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo issued a commentary on Hong Kong to condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression of democratic freedom. On November 19 and 20, 2019, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the Hong Kong Bill of Rights and Democracy to support the Hong Kong democracy movement and condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression and persecution.

On May 27, 2020, the Secretary of State Pompeo issued a statement confirming that Hong Kong no longer had a high degree of autonomy and that Hong Kong may no longer enjoy special preferential treatment from the United States.

The “anti-China” pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has made the world see the true face of the CCP and has revealed Xi Jinping’s intention to accelerate the defamation of Hong Kong and eliminate the democratic forces in Hong Kong which is bound to intensify the contradictions between the CCP and the free world and intensify the global anti-communist struggle.

In 2019, Hong Kong’s “anti-China” movement gave Taiwan a great stimulus, “Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow”, a great blow to the unificationists, affecting Taiwan’s 2020 elections. Tsai Ing-wen “picked up Hong Kong’s gun and fired violently at the mainland. The situation in Hong Kong has inspired the Taiwanese people to be more wary of the CCP than ever before. Tsai Ing-wen is “pro-US and anti-communist” and her campaign has gained momentum. Xi Jinping helped Tsai Ing-wen, who won the election with high votes. Xi Jinping’s attempt to take over Taiwan is increasingly becoming a sham.

In July 2020, Xi Jinping put all his efforts into suppressing the “anti-China” movement. In July 2020 he introduced the National Security Law, directly manipulating Hong Kong with the legislation of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled National People’s Congress, forcing Hong Kong to implement his draconian law and giving the police more power to bugging, searching, banning from leaving the country and freezing assets at will. This will speed up the defamation of Hong Kong as a seaport under the control of the CCP, not different from mainland cities, but Hong Kong is inextricably linked to the rest of the world, with many foreign companies, media and civil society organizations.

On December 2, 2020, a Hong Kong court sentenced popular protest leaders Huang Zhihua, Zhou Ting, and Lin Rongyan to 7 to 13 months in prison, and in April 2021, arrested Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Lai Chiying and seven others. Many pro-democracy activists were forced to flee and a ship carrying more than 10 fugitives left Hong Kong for Taiwan and was intercepted by police.

Xi Jinping’s attack on freedom and democracy will not stop. Xi’s army even calls for the expulsion of 7.5 million Hong Kong people and 8 million immigrants from the mainland, further exposing the true face of the CCP’s barbarism and making the world aware of the viciousness and brutality of Communism which will inevitably provoke countries to besiege the CCP and speed up the end of Xi Jinping. Hong Kong is a bridgehead against the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party, a beacon of democracy and as the “Pearl of the Orient”, Hong Kong will continue to shine brightly.