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According to a Reuters report, Raab said: “The CCP today adopted a reform plan for the electoral system in Hong Kong. This action clearly violates the Sino-British Joint Declaration, violates the CCP’s international obligations, and undermines the freedom of the people of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Kong “.
According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed by former British Prime Minister Thatcher and Zhao Ziyang in 1984, Hong Kong’s autonomy and democracy should remain unchanged for 50 years.
The Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China approved Hong Kong’s political reform plan on the 30th, requiring that the number of members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council be increased from 70 to 90, but the number of Council members Hong Kong Legislative directly elected by Hong Kong voters dropped from 35 to 20; At the same time, any candidate for Legislative Council elections must be vetted by the Hong Kong Election Committee and certified by the Hong Kong police and the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that Hong Kong is controlled by “patriots.”
Regarding this, the late Hong Kong governor Patten said that the CCP bypassed the Hong Kong Legislative Council’s unilaterally forcible reform of the electoral system in Hong Kong, which is the biggest annihilation of the demands of Hong Kong. freedom and democracy of the Hong Kong people under the government. Of law.
This is because the CCP’s move is equivalent to an express provision that the people of Hong Kong must become “patriots” and pledge allegiance to the CCP if they want to stand in the elections. He said: “The CCP’s move violated all its commitments and completely destroyed the” One country, two systems “” Promise; once again show the world that the CCP is not trustworthy. It also shows that the CCP is an ongoing and cruel threat to all those who believe in a free and open society. “
Rogers: Totalitarianism in China has replaced public opinion in Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers, the managing director of the Hong Kong Oversight Organization, said that the CCP’s review of Hong Kong’s electoral system not only violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Hong Kong Basic Law, but also clearly showed that Xi Jinping no longer wanted to Support “one country, two systems” or comply with the CCP’s international obligations.
He said that today’s public opinion on Hong Kong has been completely replaced by totalitarianism, because according to these Chinese Communist Party regulations, the majority of Hong Kong people will be permanently deprived of political power, and those who support the Hong Kong’s democracy and autonomy and the CCP’s critics will be prohibited from participating in the elections. And now most of the Hong Kong Democrats have been imprisoned by the CCP.
Therefore, he urged the British government to quickly introduce the Magnitsky Law and suspend any business negotiations with the CCP to confront the CCP’s behavior of harming others and benefiting itself and permanently rewrite the Hong Kong Basic Law.
