HK Youth's Lessons on the West
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8 | Wednesday, July 15, 2020 HONG KONG| EDITIONCHINA DAILY COMMENTHK Anti-racism uprisings: HK National Security Law youth’s lessons on the West opens a new chapter in Hong Kong politics Andre Vltchek says young people who have been hanks to the deterrent e ect of the brainwashed into idolizing Western culture may be newly enacted National Security Law, the yearlong “black revolution” has about to get to know how flawed the system really is now come to an end. If the special Tadministrative region government can control hree years ago, I vis- Victims and victimizers talk. They the third wave of the COVID-19 outbreaks ited the Old Supreme understand each other. They even sym- with fresh anti-epidemic initiatives, along with pathize with each other. That is how Zhou Bajun Court Building in Hong measures to stabilize the economy and ensure The author is a senior research fellow of Kong, also known the system was designed. No serious employment, then the attempt by anti-China China Everbright Holdings. as the Court of Final issues are addressed. While the UK is, forces to seize more than half of the seats in the Appeal, together with once again, involved in the project of upcoming Legislative Council election in Sep- my friend, an Afghan- Andre Vltchek containing China, this is never pro- tember will very likely be another burst bubble. Constitution has replaced Hong Kong Royal British lawyer, who was on a personal The author is a novelist, fi lmmaker nounced. The enforcement of the National Security Instructions and Hong Kong Letters Patent to Tmission of “rediscovering Asia”. and investigative journalist. As long as the mutual ignorance is Law has been so swift and e ective that it become the basic norm of the legal system in Coming from a prominent, highly upheld, there is no “danger” that the immediately disrupted the opposition camp’s Hong Kong. The slogan of “Liberate Hong Kong, educated family in Afghanistan, my social — which I have been studying for young rioters and their foreign backers execution of its foreign masters’ plan of using revolution of our times” is separatist because it friend was extremely well aware that decades, and which I greatly admire. On would ever change the course of their the SAR against China. The desperate verbal drives the Hong Kong mentality to the extreme. both the United States and the United many occasions, I wrote, passionately, actions. attacks by United States Secretary of State The accusation that the National Security Law Kingdom thoroughly destroyed her what I believe: If socialism with Chinese But are foreigners who are creating Mike Pompeo against the National Security is “undermining the rule of law” comes from an country during the recent occupation. In characteristics were to be destroyed, our chaos in Hong Kong really so “naive”? Law and the appeal to Western countries overemphasis on the common law system while fact, under the NATO boots, Afghanistan human race could lose all hopes for sur- Are they truly so ignorant about the evil- to establish an anti-China alliance by Chris paying no regard to the Constitution. became the poorest country in Asia, with viving, or at least for a better future. ness that they are spreading? Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, dem- The “black revolution” has fully exposed the lowest life expectancy. Understanding “where they are com- Yes, and no. In a way, their “ignorance” onstrated how desperate the US and United severe inadequacies in the education system of But after the long journey through ing from”, comprehending what had resembles a religious indoctrination. In Kingdom governments are. The Guardian on Hong Kong. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Asia, somehow, she became nostalgi- been done to them, I grasp how the fact, it is almost a fundamentalist belief: July 8 quoted Patten as saying, “The re-election Yuet-ngor mentioned at an education forum cally attached to Hong Kong. It looked young rioters think and feel. I want in the superiority of the Western culture, of Donald Trump will make it harder to form on July 11 that police had arrested more than familiar. As she studied and practiced to shake them, shout at them to stop. and in the preeminence of the Western an e ective alliance to prevent China from 3,000 students in its anti-riot operations last law in the UK, the Court of Final Appeal I want to share with them all that I political system. destroying the rule of law”. He urged the UK year. Many secondary school students formed Building looked familiar and reassuring learned in some 160 countries of the Many in Hong Kong adopted this to take the helm in building this alliance, say- human chains and chanted separatist slogans to her. world that I have covered. At times, I frame of mind. Or, to use religious ing the UK had to play “a leading role in put- when they could not join rioters in the streets. As it happened to be a working day, am tremendously outraged by their vocabulary: They were converted. ting together an intelligent group of countries Some of them went so far as to form secession- she found people to talk to, and made behavior. But I also know that they are All this, while the Chinese mainland, which are saying we are not prepared to have ist groups to advocate Hong Kong indepen- conversation with the clerks. Immedi- not only some ninja-style vandals — they one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, is the 21st century destroyed in terms of the rule dence on campus. She described the situation ately, they all managed to fi nd a com- are also the victims of the circumstances, observing, with shock, how many people of law by the Chinese dictatorship”. as extremely worrying and feared anti-China mon language. Of di erent races and particularly of Western brainwashing. in the HKSAR are jerking their bodies As the National Security Law has completely and anti-government sentiment might have di erent backgrounds, they were clearly Same as my Afghan friend, same as and souls in some insane ritual dances shielded Hong Kong from the direct interfer- been ingrained in these young minds. Blam- “on the same page”, united by the Brit- those clerks working in a courthouse choreographed by the former colonizers. ence of the US and the UK, those Western pow- ing this grave situation on the politicization of ish way of thinking, doing things as well in Hong Kong, rioters are part of that All this may soon end, now that the ers are now expected to shift their o ensive education in Hong Kong, she warned that as as analyzing and judging the world. “common sphere” of the British infl u- statues of former slave-owners and con- focus to ideological infl uence on Hong Kong long as the political issues remain unresolved, “Britishness” was uniting them. Both my ence. querors are being thrown into the rivers politics. The “primary election” farce staged by it would be di cult to turn it around. friend and the employees inside the old If you go to an average English pub, all over the US and UK. the opposition camp on July 11 and 12 showed Now that the chief executive is aware of the courthouse in Hong Kong were from the not in central London, but a suburb, or With the anti-racist uprisings in both their staunch supporters are their ideological severe inadequacies in Hong Kong’s educa- places that used to be or still were bru- in a provincial city, you will quickly real- the US and Europe, new winds are blow- “soul mates”. tion, the SAR government will need to tackle tally occupied, ransacked, and tortured ize that even the British citizens them- ing, and soon they may reach Asia. Western politicians such as Pompeo and Pat- the issue through a three-pronged approach. by the Western powers in general and by selves are “victims” of their own British Maybe these events could fi nally ten have portrayed their China containment First, the Education Bureau must maintain the UK in particular. But common expe- propaganda. In an English pub, most of awaken most of the Hong Kong youth. policy as “the fi ght between democracy and correct political standing while formulating rience and shared “cultural elements” the people are trusting the o cial line of Then, perhaps, they will understand autocracy”, which is just rehashing a Cold War policy measures. Second, schools must correct made them understand each other, and their government and the mass media. that they have been fooled, that they slogan in the 21st century. The real problem their political bearing when necessary. Third, able to communicate fl awlessly. At least when it comes to foreign a airs, are fi ghting for the system and culture now is that, under more than one and a half teaching materials and teachers must convey In 2019 and 2020, I have been cover- and their empire’s history. which even many Westerners do not centuries of British rule, many Hong Kong to students the correct political standpoints ing “events” in the HKSAR, in-depth, Now (or at least before the COVID-19 desire anymore. residents were considerably brainwashed by and viewpoints. Political correctness refers to and passionately. It is because what has travel restrictions), British tourists, as And maybe, just maybe, the mutual Western ideology. Therefore, it is imperative the full and accurate understanding and imple- been taking place there is extremely well as British journalists, were coming ignorance could end.