At present, some citizens in Hong Kong are calling for the name of Victoria Park to be changed to remove the colonial era. The major self-media and comment areas on the Internet have also made suggestions and suggestions, some suggesting changing the name to "Oriental Pearl Park", some suggesting changing it to "Bauhinia Park" or "Hong Kong Park" or "People's Park".
Judging from the positive speeches of netizens, Hong Kong's decolonization has now penetrated the hearts of the people. It is time for the relevant departments to follow the water and complete the great feat of Hong Kong's complete return to the motherland in accordance with the will of the people.
Recently, I learned a word "subdivided room" from the Internet, and when I saw some pictures of this word, to be honest, I was shocked for a while. "劏" is pronounced tāng, which means slaughter in Cantonese. As the name suggests, the subdivided house is to divide the large house into a number of independent small houses, similar to the commonly known as "capsule room", and there are currently more than 200,000 people living in this kind of house in Hong Kong.
Think about what it would be like to live in a subdivided room with less than 4 square meters per capita.
When Hong Kong returned to the motherland on July 1, 1997, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa proposed to solve the housing problem of Hong Kong citizens at the beginning of his term of office. Even later, after Leung Chun-ying and Carrie Lam came to power, they also proposed housing plans to solve the problem of Hong Kong citizens. However, all these plans for the well-being of Hong Kong citizens have ended in vain due to the interference of foreign political forces and individual interested parties in Hong Kong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > to correct the chaos, the pearl is brilliant</h1>
Once upon a time, Hong Kong became a "stinky harbor" and a haven for troublemakers.
Abroad, various forces in Hong Kong are complicit in their efforts and delusional to use the "stinky port" as a fulcrum to shake the stability of our country and interfere with the pace of our country's progress, but at this time, China is no longer the China in which the people were backward and poor, and the government was corrupt and incompetent during the Opium War of 1840.
At this time, China had been buried in development for many years and had stepped into the world's second largest economy.
Whether in the economic and people's livelihood, or in the fields of science and technology and military achievements, they have already represented the highest development achievements in the history of Chinese civilization. Today, we are as calm as a rock, coldly watching the clumsy performances of a handful of jumping beam clowns who are destined to be swept into the garbage heap of history in a vain attempt to "shake the big tree".
When the autumn day of the golden breeze arrives, Hong Kong is like a child who has just experienced the storm and snuggled quietly in the warm arms of the mother of the motherland under the illumination of the rainbow, listening to the mother's sincere teachings and ideas for future development.
Looking back at Hong Kong's recovery from 1997 to the chaos of the previous two years and then to the complete governance of this year, a number of foreign political forces and representatives of interest groups in Hong Kong have been forcefully swept away by the Chinese government. The series of political contests behind this all reflect the high political wisdom of the Chinese Communists and the ruling concept of serving the people wholeheartedly.
Seeing the current stability and unity in Hong Kong and the scene of vigorous development, no one can help but think of its inevitable brilliant future, but also make today's Chinese people miss it, and the patriots from all walks of life who promoted Hong Kong's smooth return to Hong Kong and the outstanding predecessor leader of our party, Deng Xiaoping.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > the past is not forgotten, the teacher of the future</h1>
The magnum opus of history is turned over to the slightly yellowed September 1982, when the smoke of the Falklands War had just cleared, and Margaret Thatcher, with the arrogance of the victors, once again set foot on the land of China, which had given birth to an ancient civilization. To her utter surprise, the rival who awaited her this time also had a nickname— steel companies.
History sometimes inadvertently comes to a little humor, when iron meets steel, and the other party is not a piece of steel, but a steel company, its ending has actually been clearly placed there, and those who can't see through all this are often parties.
Margaret Thatcher was born on 13 October 1925 and died on 8 April 2013 at the age of 87.
He has been prime minister in British politics since 1979 and has been in power for 11 years as a politician of the British conservative party. Before and after becoming prime minister, there was a strong resistance and attack on communism, which earned him the nickname "Iron Lady".
On April 2, 1982, the Armagh Island War broke out with the Argentine army occupying the Falklands, and in the face of many unfavorable factors at home and abroad, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher firmly chose to confront it by way of war. In the face of strength and determination, this high-profile war finally announced a formal ceasefire when the British army recaptured South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on June 20 of that year and accepted the surrender of the local Argentine army.
Less than a month after the victory in the war, on July 18, 1982, Margaret Thatcher convened a special meeting in the Prime Minister's Office to study hong Kong-related issues with members of the Cabinet.
In fact, as early as April, three months ago, the United Kingdom took the initiative to send former Prime Minister Edward Heath to visit China on the settlement of the Hong Kong issue, and reached a willingness with Deng Xiaoping to negotiate a settlement of the Hong Kong issue. However, after the victory in the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher began to inflate the courage of the victors in her heart, and decided to take the momentum and majesty of the victors on the Falklands and engage in a contest between the strong and the strong with China on the Hong Kong issue.
Thatcher is no stranger to China, having visited China as leader of the opposition in 1977, when China, which had just ended the Cultural Revolution, left her with a bad impression.
On September 22, 1982, when confronted by people from all walks of life who had come to greet her at the capital airport, Margaret Thatcher, who had stepped out of the cabin, smiled charmingly and was particularly confident about the upcoming outcome of the visit.
At this time, China's domestic region is a stage of waste waiting to be rebuilt.
The establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone has been in the past two years, the clarion call of reform and opening up has just sounded, and it is urgent to integrate into the embrace of the world, and it is necessary to actively cooperate and intervene in foreign advanced technology and funds in many aspects such as industry, science and technology, and finance. Although the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in 1979 has ended and achieved certain results in strategy, the sound of gunfire on the border line is still coming from time to time, and the war has not completely stopped.
Coupled with the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution in the recent past ten years, the psychological wounds caused to the suffering people of our country have not yet been healed. The various ideologies in China have not yet been completely unified, the resistance encountered at the beginning of reform and opening up is still relatively large, and the social order is also relatively chaotic.
Internationally, China and the United States have ended a 30-year-long abnormal state, and have just formally established diplomatic relations for about 3 years, although sweet but not yet stable.
In terms of Sino-Soviet relations, the Soviet Union first sent a clear signal of hope for improvement.
On March 24, 1982, The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Brezhnev gave a long speech in Tashkent during his inspection of the work of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. In addition to habitually attacking China, the speech also expressed three unexpected attitudes: recognizing China's social system; supporting one-China policies and being willing to restore relations in the past.
Although these statements were brief, they were a sensation in the world at that time.
The confrontation between China and the Soviet Union for more than 20 years, including the containment and pressure on Chinese power during the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979, caused certain losses to the economy and military strength of both sides. Since the 1980s, the Soviet economy has been suppressed by the United States, Britain, and NATO countries, and has begun to decline.
In particular, the harmonious and sweet diplomatic influence between China and the United States has caused considerable pressure and strategic passivity to the international situation of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet leaders have been actively considering the stiff diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union under pressure.
Of course, at this time, the Chinese government did not overreact brezhnev's speech, but chose to continue to observe his words and deeds through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But soon after the above speech, Brezhnev died of a heart attack, and the dawn of improvement in Sino-Soviet relations was temporarily obscured by dark clouds.
At this time, due to the victory of the Falklands War in Britain, the unprecedented unity and support of the people was aroused, and Thatcher's ruling position was more stable. Wilson, the former British ruling Labour Party, was forced by the decline of national strength and the international situation to adopt a policy of contraction, basically giving up the colonial rights of the past, and the political power was once limited to Europe.
After Margaret Thatcher came to power, she fully cooperated with the United States and reopened the process of British interference in global affairs. Although the Empire has only a little afterglow left, the confident Margaret Thatcher still decided to bring Britain's power back to the center of the world political arena with the pride of the victors in the Falklands War.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > Empire's dream of sinking into the sand and raising the country's prestige for The return of Hong Kong</h1>
But on the morning of September 24, 1982, when Margaret Thatcher met with Deng Xiaoping in the Great Hall of the People, she perhaps did not realize that China's long-awakened lion was about to make a deafening roar.
When Deng Xiaoping met with Margaret Thatcher, he first comprehensively expounded to her China's basic stand on the Hong Kong issue. But Margaret Thatcher said the three unequal treaties needed to remain in force, and she insisted that only continued British rule could guarantee Hong Kong's prosperity and stability.
Arrogant, she also made a threatening remark that if China announced that it was going to take back Hong Kong, it would have disastrous and unpredictable consequences for the region. During the talks, Margaret Thatcher thought that China, which urgently needs to use the world's science and technology and investment, must not easily turn its face.
Therefore, she believes that by being tough on China and resolutely refusing to give in, China will reconsider its intention to take back Hong Kong. Therefore, she stressed that since China wants to carry out modernization, it needs Hong Kong to be more prosperous and stable, and of course, it is inseparable from British governance.
Deng Xiaoping immediately responded forcefully to her arrogant remarks, and firmly stated that the three unequal treaties she had described had never been recognized by New China and could not be discussed on issues involving China's national sovereignty. He also made it clear to Margaret Thatcher with a firm attitude that the Chinese government was no longer the government of the late Qing Dynasty, and that china's leader was not Li Hongzhang.
If there is no progress in the negotiations, China will unilaterally announce its decision to take back Hong Kong within two years.
Deng Xiaoping had a very unpleasant conversation with the powerful Margaret Thatcher, who had received strict family education from her father since childhood, and had always actively fought for the first place, with a flamboyant personality and indomitable queen. Officers are often in front of others, even when they usually take the bus, they also stick to the first row.
Under this strict education, Thatcher showed positivity among children of the same age from an early age, full of determination and faith to overcome all difficulties, until he became the first female prime minister in British history.
Negotiations between the two sides have been taking place in an atmosphere of full frankness, but Thatcher's arrogant language has made the negotiators at this time extremely angry.
The Daily Telegraph later revealed in a report that Deng Xiaoping had whispered to an aide at the time: "This woman is so unreasonable that I really can't talk to her." ”
It was not until the two sides talked about it that Deng Xiaoping said that China and britain must return Hong Kong to China within two years, settle the issue through negotiations, and not allow it to drag on any longer. If the two sides fail to reach an agreement on some issues of principle during this period, or if there are major fluctuations in Hong Kong, the Chinese government will have to consider the time and method of recovering Hong Kong.
Although the above statements do not seem to be very strong, the weight of their expressions is already very serious.
Rethinking time means that maybe not 97 years, the way to negotiate peace may not be. When she heard this, Mrs. Thatcher was stunned and did not react for half a day. His face was blue and he was nervous at one point. In the first Sino-British high-level confrontation, the "Iron Lady" was completely defeated, and when the opponent was a powerful "steel company", the victory or defeat was already doomed.
What is even more puzzling is that after the talks, Margaret Thatcher accidentally fell down the steps of the north gate of the Great Hall of the People.
As early as the arrangements before his visit to China, Thatcher chose to ignore the consistent diplomatic etiquette of the West, arbitrarily rejected the british Foreign Office's proposal, and would not lay a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes.
As for the cause of Thatcher's fall, there have been many opinions, some people say that it is caused by the fatigue of her hurried and tight schedule; some say that it is caused by the recent varicose vein surgery and the onset of old injuries; some people say that she was shocked and undecided by the momentum of the Chinese leader.
And I would say that the cause of Thatcher's fall was the result of the thousands of Chinese people who had been harmed by the British invaders and their accomplices since the Opium War of 1840 and the countless heroic spirits who had died to resist the aggression of the great powers. As they watched the representatives of the former invaders today bow down before them, the spirits of the martyrs in heaven were comforted.
In the face of the arrogance of the representative of the British invaders, who were still shrouded in the afterglow of the empire, the Chinese people who had regained their feet under the leadership of the Communist Party of China did not agree! In order to resist external aggression, the benevolent people who went to the blood and sacrificed one after another did not agree in the spirit of heaven!
When Margaret Thatcher fell on the land of China, it also symbolized that the last fig leaf of the British Empire was gone.
When the most difficult Sino-British summit negotiations have passed, the rest of the matter is relatively simple.
On December 19, 1984, Margaret Thatcher, who was once again in China, saw her last negotiator, Deng Xiaoping. Through the continuous efforts of the staff of the two sides during this period, the signing ceremony of the Joint Declaration on the Settlement of the Hong Kong Issue between the two countries was successfully completed.
Regarding the great concept of "one country, two systems" creatively put forward by the Chinese side, Margaret Thatcher once commented that the concept of "one country, two systems", that is, to retain two different political, social and economic systems in one country, has no precedent in the world. It provided an imaginative answer to Hong Kong's special historical environment, and in the Joint Statement the British side promised to hand over Hong Kong's sovereignty to China on 1 July 1997 and establish the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.
Throughout Thatcher's wonderful life, the negotiations involving the return of Hong Kong to China and the signing of the Sino-British Joint Statement on the Hong Kong Question are undoubtedly a significant stroke of her work. The signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is a major diplomatic victory for China and a major victory for the people of the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
But on the other hand, for Thatcher, this was undoubtedly a very serious failure in her brilliant political career.
On June 30, 1997, heavy rain fell in Hong Kong.
This is the tear of happiness for this child in Hong Kong who has left the motherland for many years and is about to return, and it is a thorough wash away from the century-old shameful history. Whether Margaret Thatcher was in tears at the time, we do not know. But she later told reporters who interviewed her that she was very sad that day and would never forget it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="80" dissipates > the stars fall flowers, and the merits and losses are said</h1>
Margaret Hilda Thatcher died of a stroke on an early morning of 8 April 2013 without a single loved one. On the same day, the British government announced that it would not hold a state funeral for him.
Throughout Thatcher's life, the daughter of a grocer in the small town of Grantham, has left the world with so many things to comment on. Internationally, she assisted the United States and other partners in bringing down the then super-empire of the Soviet Union. Especially on the issue of the Falklands War, they vigorously defied the consensus of the people, resolutely responded to the battle, and finally won the victory and established their prestige.
At home, she, like her father, believed in Wesleyan, and seemed to have an absolute concept of equality in her nature, but this concept of equality was too much applied to the taxes and welfare of the poor, making it seem a little harsh. Especially after she entered politics, she privatized, vigorously suppressed guilds, deregulated, introduced a poll tax, reduced social welfare, and even abolished free milk for students.
The poor and the rich are naturally not fair from birth, and it is the responsibility of governments to use as many systems as possible to narrow the gap between them, not the other way around. Policy formulation is always on the side of the majority of the people, so that the contradictions within the country can be reduced, so as to achieve long-term peace and stability.
Margaret Thatcher, on the contrary, under the banner of fairness, levied the rich and the poor on a per capita basis, and one-sidedly believed that excessive welfare would make people lazy. In short, the policies she advocated and implemented encouraged the rich to work harder or what could be called exploitation.
But it also completely angered many ordinary people, causing many people to even go to her mourning activities after her death.
Margaret Thatcher is gone, but the governing philosophy represented by her is always a warning and reference for future generations.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="89" > is clear, and the cause and effect are not ambiguous</h1>
Sooner or later, they must be returned by unjust force, which is the law of cause and effect in the world.
It's like a baby raising someone else, and sooner or later it will go to her mother when she grows up. At this time, the adoptive mother will suddenly wake up and repent of the violent robbery that she relied on in the end and could not be possessed forever.
Sadness is always inevitable, and how we hope that future generations, especially the descendants of the former great powers, can learn from the lessons of history, change evil from good, and treat others in a civilized manner. But to this day, there are still many old and young people who have never set in the empire, and they still fantasize about being able to relive old dreams.
As we all know, since Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997, some British people have still been thieves and have actively contacted and colluded with a small number of traitors in Hong Kong. On the Hong Kong issue, we have deliberately distorted the facts on many occasions, created incidents without reason, and provoked our Government and people.
But after all, these tricks and means are futile, and when the cold-eyed Chinese government looks at its fate and decisively makes a decisive move, these grasshoppers who used to be very happy, under the sweep of the autumn wind, whining and mourning is also the inevitable destination.
In the future, the corrupt forces of failure can only rely on the comfort of a cup of coffee to remember the glory of the Empire that never sets in the old paintings on the wall!
After a century of vicissitudes, the Xiangjiang River is magnificent, and after the return of Hong Kong gradually sweeps away the colonial color imposed on itself, it will be able to fly above the higher blue sky under the support of the mother of the motherland!