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Preface
On March 23, the National Security Ordinance came into effect in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), which plays a very significant role in safeguarding China's territorial sovereignty and safeguarding Hong Kong's security.
However, shortly after the regulation was issued, as many as 31 countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, expressed strong opposition to the regulation.
What laws and regulations the Hong Kong SAR wants to enact is an internal affair of the Chinese people, and it is not the turn of foreigners to dictate, but it is still necessary for us to understand why the regulations promulgated this time will make so many countries "break their defenses".
Role of the Regulations
The biggest effect of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance is to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, clarify the constitutional responsibilities stipulated in the National Security Law, fill the loopholes in the previous Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in safeguarding national security, and contribute to the maintenance of the public security environment and national security.
Specifically, the ordinance consists of nine sections, the most important of which are the definitions and penalties for "treason, inciting national separatism, propagating separatism, engaging in espionage, selling state secrets, and colluding with foreign forces", etc., to make them more in line with the Basic Law of Hong Kong.
The implementation of this ordinance has effectively filled all kinds of loopholes in the previous Basic Law of Hong Kong, supplemented the mechanism of the rule of law, and made the Basic Law of Hong Kong more in line with the needs of the development of the times.
There are many anti-separatist parts in the regulations, which shows that the state attaches great importance to safeguarding the territorial integrity of the motherland, and the revision of the bill is of great significance to cracking down on Hong Kong independence elements and safeguarding the country's territorial sovereignty.
Promulgation Background
The reason why Hong Kong has promulgated this ordinance is to crack down on separatists and violent terrorists and maintain Hong Kong's public order environment.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the serious damage done to Hong Kong's public security environment by Hong Kong independence elements in the past few years, and it can be said that it was the excesses of these separatists that contributed to the promulgation of the "Regulations on Safeguarding National Security."
Hong Kong independence elements have always been the key targets of the state's attack, but over the years, these separatists have been unchangeable in their desperate attempt to split the country, spreading separatist ideas in Hong Kong and colluding with foreign forces.
Just recently, Hong Kong prosecutors announced a case of separatists colluding with foreign forces in a vain attempt to organize terrorist activities to disrupt Hong Kong's law and order.
In this case, the main culprit Li Yuxuan began many years ago to accept the support of foreign forces from the United States, Israel, the Czech Republic, and other countries, and planned and carried out a series of terrorist attacks in Hong Kong, which seriously threatened the lives and safety of the Hong Kong people and seriously damaged Hong Kong's international image.
In 2019, Hong Kong also had a violent terrorist incident that caused a global sensation, which directly caused Hong Kong's international image to plummet, and the title of "Asia's safest city" became a joke for a while.
In order to thoroughly solve the problem of public order in Hong Kong, the central authorities have decided to dig deep into the common denominators of violent and terrorist incidents.
After analyzing a number of violent terrorist incidents, the government was surprised to discover the fact that almost all of these violent terrorists are Hong Kong independence elements, and all of them have ties with foreign forces.
Many terrorists are able to organize large-scale riots because they are funded by foreign forces.
What's even more terrifying is that none of these foreign forces are single organizations, but are related to foreign official governments, and some are even under the banner of foreign governments, such as the Azov Battalion in Ukraine.
This shows one thing, that is, the international anti-China forces and the Hong Kong separatists have completed the merger, and the two sides have colluded together to do everything possible to disrupt Hong Kong society.
It is against this backdrop that in order to crack down on anti-China forces outside Hong Kong and Hong Kong independence elements in China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has specially promulgated the "Ordinance on Safeguarding National Security", which fills the loopholes in the previous Basic Law of Hong Kong in cracking down on violent terrorists and separatist forces.
When this ordinance was promulgated, it was passed by a rare unanimous vote by the Hong Kong Legislative Council, which shows the seriousness of the law and order problem.
The West's boycott and the mainland's counterattack
After the "Regulations on Safeguarding National Security" came into effect, it was praised by Hong Kong citizens, and the current legislation will certainly deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of Hong Kong independence elements and anti-China forces outside Hong Kong.
However, what many people did not expect was that soon after the release of this regulation, it was jointly opposed by Western countries.
At a meeting of foreign ministers just a few days ago, G7 Foreign Minister Josep Borrell publicly expressed his opposition to the Hong Kong legislation. At the end of the meeting, the G7 and the EU issued a joint statement opposing the implementation of the National Security Regulation.
As many as 31 countries have signed a joint opposition, which makes people wonder in what way this legislation has harmed the interests of so many countries.
Judging from their statements, the reason why they oppose the implementation of the ordinance is to "protect the freedoms and human rights of Hong Kong" so that foreigners will not be restricted from doing business in Hong Kong.
A closer look will show that the reasons for their opposition are simply nonsense, first of all, "to ensure the freedom and human rights of the Hong Kong people"; Hong Kong is the land of the Chinese, and what policies to implement on this land are China's internal affairs, and foreign governments have no right to interfere.
Ignoring this fact and brazenly claiming to be the masters of the Hong Kong people, the West is essentially ignoring China's territorial sovereignty and attempting to use the Hong Kong issue to meddle in China's domestic affairs.
Moreover, the "Regulations on Safeguarding National Security" are only aimed at a small number of destabilizing elements in Hong Kong, and do not target foreign citizens in Hong Kong, and it is inherently untenable for Western countries to oppose the implementation of the regulations on the grounds of protecting the rights and interests of foreigners in Hong Kong.
In the face of the unreasonable demands of the United States and the West, the mainland naturally cannot ignore them. A few days ago, the spokesperson of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the mainland in Hong Kong issued a public response to the question of Western countries' opposition to Hong Kong's legislation at a press conference, and sternly refuted the unreasonable demands of the United States and the West.
The mainland pointed out that Britain, the United States, and other Western countries have secretly maintained contacts with Hong Kong separatists for a long time in the past, providing untold help to Hong Kong independence elements and seriously harming the mainland's national security.
Now, when the mainland wants to take measures to stop losses, they jump out and use strong words to reason, without mentioning their past behaviors, which is really shameless!
Resources
International Online, 2024-04-20, the spokesperson of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong is telling the G7: Hong Kong national security legislation is legitimate and necessary, and there is no room for comment!
China Youth Daily, 2024-04-22, G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting Insists on Manipulating China-related Issues, China: Wanton Interference in China's Internal Affairs, Resolutely Opposition
Global Times, 2024-04-20, The Hong Kong SAR Government strongly condemns the statements made by the G7 Foreign Ministers and the European Union as untrue and biased