Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan? #Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council: Refuse "One Country Two Systems"
[Editor note: July 1st is the Establishment Day of the Hong Kong SAR, noting the change in Hong Kong's sovereignty from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC since the 1997 handover.]
2022 marks 25 years since the sovereignty over Hong Kong was trasferred from Britain to the #PRC.
The Taiwan government reiterates their refusal of "#OneCountryTwoSystems". Since the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, Taiwanese people has become more concerned about the happenings in Hong Kong.
How do Taiwanese people see the current situation in Hong Kong? How would they comment on the so-called "unchanging state" promised by the PRC to Hong Kong for 50 years? Are they worried?
#RFA interviewed a few Taiwanese on the 25th anniversary of the change of Hong Kong's sovereignty.
Many people analogise "Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan" in recent years. One of the interviewees mentioned the change in Hong Kong in these 25 years -- Hong Kong was very vigorous in the media and the publishing industries. She mentioned that Taiwanese sought Hong Kong publishers to produce their "blacklisted books" during the white terror era, but now it is the opposite. She said the so-called unchsnging state is a lie for the regime to deceive people.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-71reax-07012022062344.html
#EstablishmentDay #Taiwan #TransferralofSovereignty #Handover #censorship
[Editor note: July 1st is the Establishment Day of the Hong Kong SAR, noting the change in Hong Kong's sovereignty from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC since the 1997 handover.]
2022 marks 25 years since the sovereignty over Hong Kong was trasferred from Britain to the #PRC.
The Taiwan government reiterates their refusal of "#OneCountryTwoSystems". Since the #AntiELAB movement in Hong Kong in 2019, Taiwanese people has become more concerned about the happenings in Hong Kong.
How do Taiwanese people see the current situation in Hong Kong? How would they comment on the so-called "unchanging state" promised by the PRC to Hong Kong for 50 years? Are they worried?
#RFA interviewed a few Taiwanese on the 25th anniversary of the change of Hong Kong's sovereignty.
Many people analogise "Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan" in recent years. One of the interviewees mentioned the change in Hong Kong in these 25 years -- Hong Kong was very vigorous in the media and the publishing industries. She mentioned that Taiwanese sought Hong Kong publishers to produce their "blacklisted books" during the white terror era, but now it is the opposite. She said the so-called unchsnging state is a lie for the regime to deceive people.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-71reax-07012022062344.html
#EstablishmentDay #Taiwan #TransferralofSovereignty #Handover #censorship
Radio Free Asia
【主權移交25年】今日香港明日台灣？ 陸委會：拒「一國兩制」
香港主權移交25周年，台灣重申拒絕「一國兩制」。在民間，「反送中」後台灣人對香港的關注有所提升。他們是怎樣看待香港今天的情況？如何評價中共保證香港「50年不變」的承諾？會不會擔心台灣迎來同一命運？
25th Anniversary of the Transferral of Hong Kong's Sovereignty: "Huge fallback of democracy"
Source: RFA #July01
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25th Anniversary of the Transferral of Hong Kong's Sovereignty: "Huge fallback of democracy"
In 2022, the sovereignty over Hong Kong has been transferred from Britain to the PRC for 25 years but with no plans for universal suffrage. The currrent electoral system is a "huge fallback of democracy".
With the enactment of Hong Kong National Security Law (#NSL) since 2020, the #CentralGovernment largely changed Hong Kong's electoral system, as the city's #LegislativeCouncil (#LegCo) no longer has an opposite voice.
With the enormous change in the political system and the environment in Hong Kong, what hapened to the promise of "High Degree of Autonomy" and "Hong Kong ruled by Hong Kong people"?
"When I was in Hong Kong, I saved my diary for the first time in my life. I hope it can be the evidence of Hong Kong being a British colony with a democratic society." said former and the last Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.
Hong Kong once experienced a higher level of democracy and more freedom. However, the circumstances have changed a lot in the last 25 years. The promise of a "real universal suffrage" has never been fulfilled. Worse still, the electoral system had been changed.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/features/hottopic/feature-71-07012022024423.html
#HighDegreeofAutonomy #ChrisPatten #ElectoralSystem #Handover
In 2022, the sovereignty over Hong Kong has been transferred from Britain to the PRC for 25 years but with no plans for universal suffrage. The currrent electoral system is a "huge fallback of democracy".
With the enactment of Hong Kong National Security Law (#NSL) since 2020, the #CentralGovernment largely changed Hong Kong's electoral system, as the city's #LegislativeCouncil (#LegCo) no longer has an opposite voice.
With the enormous change in the political system and the environment in Hong Kong, what hapened to the promise of "High Degree of Autonomy" and "Hong Kong ruled by Hong Kong people"?
"When I was in Hong Kong, I saved my diary for the first time in my life. I hope it can be the evidence of Hong Kong being a British colony with a democratic society." said former and the last Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.
Hong Kong once experienced a higher level of democracy and more freedom. However, the circumstances have changed a lot in the last 25 years. The promise of a "real universal suffrage" has never been fulfilled. Worse still, the electoral system had been changed.
Source: RFA #July01
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/features/hottopic/feature-71-07012022024423.html
#HighDegreeofAutonomy #ChrisPatten #ElectoralSystem #Handover
Radio Free Asia
【主權移交25年（二）】政治篇——「港人治港、高度自治」之路如何了？
香港主權移交25年，不但普選沒有實現，選舉制度更是「民主大倒退」。隨著近年《港區國安法》出台，中央大幅修改選舉制度，立法會再無反對聲音，香港的政治制度和環境出現重大改變，「港人治港、高度自治」的路，還可以怎樣走下去？本台今集繼續走訪港英兩地，從政治角度審視香港主權移交中國第25年的變遷。