Xinhua International Times: To stand for the "position" of inciting violence is to safeguard freedom

Beijing, 30 Dec (Xinhua) -- Standing for a "stand" to incite violence is to safeguard freedom

Xinhua News Agency

Six current and former senior executives and 1 writer of the Hong Kong online media company "Position News" were recently arrested by the Hong Kong police in accordance with the law, and then "Position News" announced that it would stop operating. "Stand News" has long instigated violence and instigated "anti-China chaos in Hong Kong." Some external forces, represented by US Secretary of State Blinken, have once again taken advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, reversing right and wrong, creating rumors and smears, and once again exposing their "double standard" style, hegemonic behavior, and attempts to delay China's development, which will surely be spurned by people of global justice.

What kind of goods is "position news"? "Stand News" has always held the position of "opposing China and chaos in Hong Kong" and has long used fake news to incite confrontation and confrontation with the SAR Government. During the storm over the amendment of the law in 2019, it was even more capable of creating rumors, using one scam after another such as dead people in subway stations concocted by the "anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong" forces to slander the Hong Kong police, advocate "Hong Kong independence" and "stir-frying", and open their eyes for "black rioters". After the promulgation and implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the "Position News" still did not know reverence, repentance, and arrogance. According to Hong Kong media statistics, from July 2020 to November this year, the online media published at least 20 inflammatory articles, which continued to incite public hatred against the central government and the SAR government and the judicial system, concocted lies and slandered the Hong Kong police, and constantly called for foreign sanctions against China for the "anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong" forces, smearing the Hong Kong National Security Law and the human rights situation in Hong Kong. In May 2021, Position News went so far as to reprint an article advocating terrorism, inciting a lone wolf terrorist attack in Hong Kong. Such a blatant challenge to national security, deliberately undermine Hong Kong's stability, and continue to poison the social environment proves that it is an out-and-out "anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong" political organization.

The Hong Kong police's action against "Position News" this time is entirely carried out in accordance with the law, is reasonable and evidence-based, and cannot be smeared. The Hong Kong Crimes Ordinance clearly stipulates that it is an offence for any person to publish or publish an inflammatory publication by publishing or publishing an inflammatory publication. The actions of the SAR Government are completely just and just moves to safeguard national security and defend Hong Kong's rule of law and social order, and people from all walks of life in Hong Kong clap their hands and applaud them.

On May 31, 2020, protest demonstrators were arrested by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. George Floyd, an African-American man in Minnesota, suffocated to death in May 2020 after being violently enforced by white police, sparking mass protests across the United States. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Angus Alexander)

However, the legitimate compliance actions of the Hong Kong SAR government have been smeared and attacked by the United States and its "little followers" - some politicians such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia in the past few days. These people have disregarded the merits and wrongs, wantonly denigrated the law enforcement actions of the Hong Kong police, and even arbitrarily demanded the release of the detainees. Such a reversal of right and wrong and gross interference in Hong Kong affairs is tolerable and intolerable!

It is worth mentioning that the excuse thrown out by these politicians and forces is the so-called "freedom of the press", saying that this move "damages Hong Kong's credibility and vitality". In fact, their performance just exposed their "double standard" face. Among other things, during the nationwide protests triggered by the Floyd incident in the United States in 2020, a large number of journalists who reported the truth were attacked or arrested by the US police. I would like to ask, what qualifications does the United States have to make irresponsible remarks and make a judgment on press freedom in other countries? The United States and the West bluff attacked hong Kong's press freedom, but they turned a blind eye to their own bad deeds, regarded press freedom as a political tool for doing whatever they wanted, and wantonly smeared and attacked other countries. Such a typical "double standard" and hegemonic behavior just highlights its purpose of interfering in Hong Kong affairs by any means.

For a long time, the external anti-China forces have repeatedly made a fuss about democracy, human rights, judicial fairness, press freedom, and so on, and have made senseless noises; in the final analysis, they have nothing more than wanting to use the so-called "freedom" as a shield under the guise of hypocrisy, continue to play the "Hong Kong card," collude with "anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong" elements, stir up trouble in Hong Kong, undermine Hong Kong's prosperity and stability, and try to finally achieve the sinister goal of delaying China's development.

The trend of the times, the mighty. With the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the improvement of the election system in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the situation in Hong Kong in rectifying chaos, rectifying chaos, and governing the situation has been continuously consolidated, and the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become unstoppable. I would like to advise US politicians and their "little followers" to stop this clumsy performance of reversing black and white and trying to fool international public opinion. Any attempt to obstruct the Hong Kong SAR Government from enforcing the law according to law, undermining Hong Kong's prosperity and stability, and interfering in China's internal affairs will eventually be drowned in a torrent of justice rolling forward.