{UAH} Free Trade does not Give Hong Kong political freedom

Free Trade does not Give Hong Kong political freedom

By Ocaya pOcure - Uppsala Sweden.

Since early March, the streets of Hong Kong had been boiling with serious political dissatisfactions. Pathetically, what began as political protests against a bill that would accept extraditing criminal suspects to mainland China through the Hong Kong authorities had become some sorts a complete political revolutions incitement by the Western world media houses. In parallel with some very high, political violence against the police authorities by the protesters had also highly increased.

Sadly, Democracy and it's principles continued to be undermined – Last week, chaos erupted in the region after the biggest general strike of decades. At the beginning of the week, air traffic at Hong Kong International Airport has halted completely after protesters went and occupied the airport terminal buildings. Just wait and think for a minute, look at the airports for example in UK, US and other countries in Western world countries. As Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong stated that the protesters are printing the political abyss? Between the lines is the Beijing political leaderships would not be static on the 1997 Colonial script. Hong Kong had been a political inconvenience by British colonialism 1997 and has since then been a special administrative region in China. Under the slogan 'one country - two systems'. Hong Kong residents would be allowed to maintain their self-government, social order, market economy and civil liberties. And China has accepted Hong Kong status as long as the region has attracted investment, but today there are cities in mainland China those are far more prosperous.

The purely market-based argument for accepting Hong Kong's particularity has weakened the principle of democracy. Step by step, democracy has been undermined. Democracy activists are regularly arrogant and as such they may be arrested and punished for small crimes. Politicians advocating independence have been thrown out of Parliament and the only party that runs that issue has been banned. A special election committee has been given the right to decide who may stand for election. More and more power is concentrated on the government and the civil liberties are discontinued. Bandits maintain the order – The regime in Beijing has clearly shown over the past few months that one is not interested in a system that allows free thinking or citizens who want to democratize a dysfunctional leadership. The fact that China has commissioned bandits to disrupt protests, spurn protesters and maintain order shows that there is no respect for Hong Kong's uniqueness. Will the violence increase now? It almost sounds like Carrie Lam fears, Beijing may have some change of its political stands if the protests continued in Hong Kong. Success for protesters in Hong Kong can quickly become the inspiration for the hard-pressed Uighurs in Xianjing or separatists in Tibet. The politicians and thinkers in Sweden and the EU who argue that free trade with China is the simplest and best way to disrupt the repression system in Beijing has a lot to prove.

 

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