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szdaily -> Opinion -> 
Role of the US in HK turbulence
    2019-08-05  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Winton Dong

dht0620@126.com

AFTER weeks of evolving into a vicious state of affairs, the originally peaceful public processions against the extradition law amendments in Hong Kong have turned into violent and radical turbulence, posing great danger to the international financial hub’s rule of law and social stability, and even the national sovereignty of China.

It is obvious that what is happening in Hong Kong is not a reasonable and spontaneous airing of grievances now, but contains some local anti-government elements that are colluding with external forces and aiming to wreck the city and topple its government. In my point of view, outside meddling has already colored protests in Hong Kong into the like of those “color revolutions” that once brought great damage to the Middle East and North Africa.

Dubbed as the “Pacific Police,” it is a common practice for the United States — the only superpower in the world — to use its long-arm jurisdiction to poke its nose into the other countries’ business. Frankly speaking, the U.S. Government does not care about the wellbeing and living standard of Hong Kong citizens at all, but seems quite interested in and very enthusiastic about putting the Chinese city into social disorder.

Some U.S. politicians have meddled in China’s internal affairs and turned a blind eye to the facts by insisting the protests are peaceful and accusing Hong Kong police of brutality. At the end of February 2019, Kurt Tong, then-consul general of the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong and Macao, groundlessly defamed China’s “one country, two systems” principle and aroused public anger. He was later removed from the post in July. In March, May and July this year, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton respectively met with visiting leaders of the opposition camp from Hong Kong. In late June, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, claimed that the protests in Hong Kong were “a beautiful landscape.”

On July 23, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, on his Twitter account, accused China of violating its promises on Hong Kong affairs. On July 26, Eliot Engel, a Democrat from New York State and the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said that “allegations of police violence over the past weeks have tarnished Hong Kong’s international reputation for good governance and the fair administration of justice.”

Fanned by the United States, the U.S. national flag was shown in the recent Hong Kong protests. Some members of U.S. intelligence staff and even key figures behind the scenes have already popped up in the crowds. A Hong Kong media tycoon, who was an important orchestrator of the protests and once met with Mike Pence, was also spotted among the radical protesters on July 27. The whole world is now wondering what role the United States is playing in the violent protests happening in Hong Kong these days.

Both China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the HKSAR have strongly denounced the groundless and biased comments of some U.S. politicians and media, saying their remarks were “barefaced lying” and of “typical double standards.” They refer to violence in the U.S. as violence, while branding violence in other countries as a matter of human rights and freedom, thus giving an excuse for them to make accusations and even interfere in other countries’ internal affairs. Such a hypocritical and ridiculous application of double standards has defied and trampled the rule of law all over the world. On June 30, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying rebuked Washington at a press conference, saying that maybe the United States could import such violent protests from Hong Kong and show the world how their democracy would handle them.

Hong Kong is part of China, and the Chinese Government and Chinese people firmly oppose any foreign interference in China’s internal affairs. Despite escalating violence and provocations, the restrained response of the Chinese Central Government clearly indicates that it still regards the protests in Hong Kong as a domestic affair, although with outside interference. But restraint does not mean that China has no capability to bring the situation in Hong Kong under control.

We hope that the U.S. and other external forces will immediately stop sending out wrong signals for violent and illegal actions in Hong Kong. After all, the economic prosperity and social stability of the city serve not only the interests of local citizens, but also are beneficial to investors from the U.S. and other countries all over the world.

(The author is the editor-in-chief of the Shenzhen Daily with a Ph.D. from the Journalism and Communication School of Wuhan University.)

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