In 1842, Hong Kong became a free port and implemented a free trade policy. Counting the time, it has been 182 years since Hong Kong opened its port.
Looking back at the history of Hong Kong's opening of the port, it is actually a history of humiliation for the Chinese nation. The opening of the port was not taken by the Qing Dynasty, but was forced by the British to become a free port connecting the East and the West.
After nearly two centuries of being a colony under British rule, Hong Kong society as a whole will inevitably have a distinct British atmosphere.
Even though Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997, it still retains British characteristics in terms of election methods, police system, and living habits. The collision of two different civilizations in Hong Kong has given rise to many social contradictions. Especially in recent years, Hong Kong has been mired in turmoil and cannot extricate itself.
The returned youth, led by Joshua Wong and Chow Ting, mistakenly followed foreign forces outside the country to confront the central government and carry out separatist moves.
These successors of "Hong Kong independence" have also become rats crossing the street -- the targets of everyone's shouting and beating, and they have been unanimously scolded by patriots.
Joshua Wong with "Buff Stacked".
In 2019, the eyes of the world have drawn attention to Hong Kong, a small place.
A group of people, dressed in black clothes, black pants, and wearing uniform hard hats, carried out smashing and looting activities on the streets, and violently stormed the Hong Kong Legislative Building, destroying facilities, and impacting Hong Kong's stability and prosperity.
What many people don't know is that most of these black-clad thugs are young people around 20 years old, and Joshua Wong, who is standing in front of the stage, is only 23 years old.
Speaking of Joshua Wong, he has a lot of "buffs". Joshua Wong was born on October 13, 1996 in a run-down neighborhood in Hong Kong.
The young Joshua Wong was an unfortunate child, born with dyslexia. In life, you can't understand what the person you're talking to, and you can't express what you really think in your heart.
The casual ridicule of his playmates and the puzzled gazes of passers-by invisibly made Joshua Wong feel inferior.
According to Joshua Wong's own statement: "When I was a child, I had dyslexia, poor memory, and couldn't keep up with my classmates. ”
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, this inferiority complex will gradually become a subconscious, and with Joshua Wong's life, he will want to appear in public, gain the approval of others, and become the focus of everyone's attention.
Of course, as Joshua Wong's parents, he must help his son overcome the inconvenience caused by dyslexia.
The approach was to convert to Christianity, because Joshua Wong's father, Wong Wai-ming, was a Christian.
The Hong Kong magazine "Parent-Child World" interviewed Joshua Wong, about his conversion to Christianity, Joshua Wong said this:
"The church was my other home, and while I was still in my mother's womb, I went to church and gave a Bible for my second birthday. My dad kept more than a thousand books explaining religious texts in his living room, and I grew up in such a Christian home. ”
It is not a big deal to rely solely on the power of religion to obtain emotional comfort, but everyone should remember that religious theory is also an ideology, and there are countless cases in history where the two sides have fought against each other due to religious differences.
In addition, Joshua Wong's father, Wong Wai Ming, instilled a missionary mission in Wong from an early age, and Joshua Wong recalled:
"From the age of six or seven, my father took me to visit grassroots families and prefabricated houses, and as a Christian, I couldn't sit idly by. My father was very involved in church affairs, and he was very concerned about the evangelism and religious revival theory in Hong Kong, and he taught me the mission of a Christian. ”
A person's childhood experience can greatly affect a person's life, and there is a similar proverb in China, "Three years old looks at eighty", which is almost the consensus of psychologists around the world.
Joshua Wong, who was both an illness and a Christian, was a teenager who preferred Britain to the Protestant spirit at the heart of its founding.
In other words, he has not had a national identity with the mainland's New China since he was a child.
Even Joshua Wong himself admitted: "It is often said that children who grow up in church families can easily turn Christianity into a second-hand faith, and I have had a similar experience." My planning, organization, and communication skills have all been cultivated from church life. ”
Born "Demon Seed"
The young Joshua Wong is unusual from others and is very willing to show off. He graduated from Salvation School in primary school and attended Hui Kei College in East Kowloon during his secondary school years.
At the College, Joshua Wong took the lead in causing trouble, using the excuse that "the ingredients in the canteen are unpalatable" to put pressure on the school. In order to persecute the school, Joshua Wong also used social media to set up a special page on Facebook to spread false information, which was also his first social involvement.
Before 2011, Joshua Wong could only be regarded as a somewhat rebellious Hong Kong teenager. However, his stubbornness in character changed his life.
This year, at the age of 15, it is difficult to say that he is mentally mature, he led a demonstration against the Hong Kong government's implementation of national education.
National education is being implemented in every country. The history, spirit, and traditions of the country should be added to the education of young people, and young people should be called upon to have a correct understanding of history and the culture of their own regions.
It is understandable for a country to carry out its own national education, but what country does not carry out national education?
Otherwise, how can there be a national identity? However, Joshua Wong and Lin Langyan strongly oppose this, believing that this is brainwashing and oppression.
The education that Joshua Wong and Lin Langyan received since childhood was completely British-style education.
Those who are familiar with history know that Hong Kong became a British colony because of the Opium War, and the two countries are completely hostile.
Therefore, in Hong Kong's textbooks, the mainland must be extremely smeared, extremely scandalized, and excluded from everything on the mainland.
In the end, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, for the sake of the overall situation, had no choice but to announce the cancellation of national education. Unexpectedly, this further fueled Joshua Wong's arrogance.
In terms of "career", Joshua Wong seems to have won. However, his natural defects still made Joshua Wong fall heavily in his studies.
In 2014, Joshua Wong took the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination and scored only 19 out of 35 points, failing to even meet the passing mark.
Joshua Wong, who was disgruntled, also deliberately spread rumors: "If students cry bitterly when the national flag is raised, they can get high scores?"
The author specifically traces back to the source, but in fact, this is just a lesson plan made by an educational institution called "Baptist Lui Mingcai Primary School".
The original text is "ask the students" if they are like award-winning athletes, proud of being Chinese, and have a feeling of moving tears.
The student replied "yes", and Joshua Wong used it as false evidence.
The academic difficulties made Joshua Wong think that the Hong Kong government was deliberately making things difficult for him. In 2014, Joshua Wong launched a general strike on the grounds of "universal suffrage" and the "scholarly ideology".
On September 26, Joshua Wong personally read out the declaration of the strike. At 10:26 p.m. that night, the radical Joshua Wong lured young students into rushing into the front enemy on the east flank of the government headquarters, taking advantage of the police unpreparedness to break into the "Civic Square".
Not only that, Joshua Wong also ordered his subordinates to divide into two ways and storm the Legislative Council. In desperation, the police took Wong away and searched Wong's home the following night.
Unfortunately, Hong Kong's legal system belongs to the law of the sea system, and Joshua Wong was released on bail soon after he was released on bail under the help of a team of lawyers supported by the United States.
A chess piece
Since then, Joshua Wong has entered the US government's field of vision and is used as a pawn against China.
Americans are particularly fond of the power of public opinion and the media, so they have made a series of packages for Joshua Wong.
In 2014, Time Magazine, which is controlled by American capital, chose Joshua Wong as one of the 25 most influential teenagers in the world.
I really don't know what epoch-making works of thought Joshua Wong has published at the age of 18 and suffering from dyslexia, I'm afraid that Kant in the Middle Ages and Plato in the classical era could not do this.
From this, it can also be seen that some Western media and magazines also take interests as the starting point, and are completely unable to be objective and fair.
In early 2018, the U.S. government used administrative resources to nominate Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and others for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Afterwards, Joshua Wong also faked an article: "Thank you for the help of the US government, the nomination is not my credit alone." ”
In 2019, Joshua Wong came to Washington, accompanied by U.S. guards. Dressed in suits, six of them spoke to the US Congress, urging the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. This move can be said to be a showdown with the mainland.
Joshua Wong participated in the riots, passing through the Legislative Council building and insulting the secretary-general of Hong Kong by name.
A middle-aged man couldn't look past it and rebuked him as a "thug". Joshua Wong couldn't bear it and replied: "His approach is very impolite. ”
On August 6, 2019, Joshua Wong met with Political Counsellor of the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau.
The outside world does not know the content of the talks, but they can guess that they are nothing more than inciting the masses and participating in the riots.
CCTV commentator Hong Lin said directly: "Yi Zhuli is the mastermind behind the US forces in Hong Kong, and the purpose is to mess up Hong Kong, and now she is so bold as to directly guide the game of chess." ”
For more than a month, Joshua Wong attended hearings in the United States and met with Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in order to make the matter bigger and bigger.
However, in the face of the arrogant acts of "Hong Kong independence" elements, the central government will certainly not sit idly by, and the promulgation of the National Security Law has provided a legal basis for Hong Kong law enforcement personnel.
In 2020, the Hong Kong government arrested Joshua Wong for unlawful assembly without authorization.
Ironically, Joshua Wong met with two U.S. diplomats at the St. John's Building office of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong on Garden Road the morning before the law was passed.
"I don't want to leave, I want to go to the consulate and seek political asylum," Wong said. ”
However, U.S. law states that it is not possible to apply for political asylum outside the United States, and Wong's request was denied.
It is also reported that the United States had considered secretly taking Joshua Wong away from Hong Kong, but could only flee to the Taiwan Strait or south to the Philippines by water.
It's just that I am worried that I will pass through Chinese waters and be seized by the mainland side, which will turn into an international incident.
At the beginning, the U.S. State Department made a decision, rejected either option, and did not notify Joshua Wong of its decision.
In December 2020, Joshua Wong, Chow Ting and Lam Long Yin pleaded guilty at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, with Wong serving 13 and a half months in prison at Shek Pik Prison.
After all, a chess piece is just a chess piece, and when it comes to its own interests, it is destined to be abandoned.
After Joshua Wong was imprisoned, his father Wong Wai-ming cashed out nearly 10 million political donations, and sold a property in 13 very high-rise buildings on the South Horizons Peninsula purchased in 2007 for 9.8 million Hong Kong dollars, and then immigrated to Australia.
In fact, although Wong Weiming guided Joshua Wong to embark on the road of street riots, in some political views, Wong Weiming and his son are also on the tip of the needle.
For example, in 2018, South Horizons held an election for the owners' meeting, and Wong Wai-ming was one of the candidates, and the election was completely operated by his son Joshua Wong, and finally lost 400 votes.
Watching the lively residents mock Huang Weiming: "Your son messed up Hong Kong, you can't even manage your son, and you still want to manage the entire building, it's really a fool's dream." ”
In addition to this election, in the "LGBT Equality Movement", father and son are two sides of the same coin, and their concepts are very different.
Epilogue:
In the final analysis, the "student movement" led by Hong Kong independence activist Joshua Wong is more like a street demonstration by a group of young people who are not familiar with their minds to vent their emotions.
It is not so much a call for democracy as a "move towards populism". Outside the region, the United States even used a group of young people such as Joshua Wong as gunmen.
If this kind of populist sentiment quickly spreads in society, it will inevitably end up being a piece of chicken feathers and a legacy for future generations.
Resources
"Readers' Comments - Joshua Wong" FTChinese.com
""Hong Kong Troublemakers" Begin to Run Away", China Economic Weekly
"The Importance of Political Identity from the Perspective of the Hong Kong Riots" He Xiling