Commentary
Oct. 1 marks the 73rd anniversary of the founding of Communist China. For the Hong Kong government, it will, on the one hand, propagate that Hong Kong is writing a new chapter of history “from chaos to governance, and from governance to greater prosperity” under the National Security Law; on the other hand, the Hong Kong Police announced that 8,000 police officers will be deployed on Oct. 1, which contrasts sharply with the propaganda of “governance” and “greater prosperity.”
The continuous denial of the ongoing wave of emigration from Hong Kong and the endless letters from the top men in the Hong Kong government to the foreign media protesting their “false reports” about Hong Kong, the all-around regression of Hong Kong in the past three years shows that it is impossible for the “loyal rubbish” (a name coined by a Beijing scholar to refer to Hong Kong’s incompetent, pro-establishment, politicians who flatter Beijing without doing anything useful) to run Hong Kong and accomplish anything significant….