【Hong Kong Street Rallies For Democracy - Perspectives From Wise Men】 These ungrateful Honkies are making a mockery of their motherland - Hong Kong is Chinese from Day 1 - and this young 17-year old Leader whose face and stunts are everywhere in the worlds papers - was, of course, never been born during Britains 150 years of colonial rule of Hong Kong. What democracy and freedom do these protesters know about HK at that time? They conveniently forgot that Great Britain forced China to open its doors to Western trade and imperialism and used HK as their main base, besides Canton to bring in/import - yes bring in - not smuggled - their opium grown in their Indian colonies, and the monopolist trader - given this dubious task - the East Indian Company and the Jewish Sassoon brothers who controlled this trade - made their millions - and 50 million Chinese became addicted to opium! Two Opium Wars and unequal treaties humiliated a militarily-weak China under the last Qing dynasty, and gave China its hundred years of shame! Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs K. Shanmugam Views on this Latest Hong Kong Protests: I believe Shanmugam talks sense - the Asian Way as he said there has been a lot of anti-China bias in the Western media reporting on this issue. He asserted: (i) China will approach Hong Kong with the perspective that what it allows Hong Kong could have an impact on the rest of China. (ii) The anti-China bias in the Western media focuses on Chinas denial of democracy promised to Hong Kong. He pointed out that Hong Kong - under 150 years of British colonial rule - did fine without democracy all these 150 years - and neither the British or the media thought Hong Kong needed democracy! (iii) The Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 on the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China also did not mention universal suffrage. What Beijing is proposing is more than what Hong Kong ever had under the British. The Western media do not report these said Mr. Shanmugam, referring to Chinas recent decision to allow Hong Kong voters to elect its future chief executive from a list of two or three candidates selected by a nominating committee. (iv) Today Chinas GDP per capita is about US$6,800. Chinas leaders will want to achieve the goal of becoming a moderately prosperous country, before they contemplate any move to democratise he added, as China look at the mess in US and Russia to support this thinking. In the US, partisan politics have led to dysfunctionality in which the government has been unable to pass a budget for years nor fix the budget deficit, not handle immigration reform, among other issues. Secondly, Mr. Shanmugam said the US is not able to look at the longer term and plan for it because of the short term electoral cycles. Likewise, the breakup of the Soviet Union made Russia even weaker, he added. (v) So China will be firm ...... it is not going to institute any major political changes to copy the Western models in the short term. The leadership will believe that any such move will be disastrous for China, and will hurt the people of China, he said. (vi) As to the Honkies pro-democracy demands, he stated that: First, China acted in accordance with the Basic Law; So if the Hong Kong people want a change from the Basic law - they have to recognize that Hong Kong is part of China, and there are some things that China will accept, and some things which are red lines for China, he added. The people of Hong Kong must also understand and realize HKs extreme reliance on China for their jobs and livelihoods, he said. Is the average Hong Konger prepared for the trade-offs? he asked. How many of these pro-democracy HK protestors view these ways as Shanmugam stated, and does the glamourized 17-year old HK poster boy lionized by the Western press knows what this is all about when he talks of democracy? Hong Kong street rallies will destroy their economy, investors confidence and get Beijing government more reserved in giving more autonomy to the HK people. Other Asian countries will definitely benefit from their social instability woes as many foreign investors will think twice coming to HK to do business again and current expats working in HK already sounding out to their company HR to request moving out to Singapore. I reckon the longer the street rallies drag on, we will see HK becoming Asian catapillar instead of dragon in the Asean arena.....This is classic example of how people destroy its own countrys destiny without knowing it, and the fact that not many HK people have the benefit of their intellectual in action.....the wise man always said the pen is mighty than the sword or paraphrase as shouting in street rallies....
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:54:10 +0000
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