No one is allowed to challenge international justice with double standards
By Zhong Sheng
Certain U.S. politicians’
backing up anti-China rioters who attempt to disrupt China’s Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (HKSAR) is in fact a bald-faced act of challenging
international justice with double standards.
As perfectly justifiable
as it is for any sovereign state to safeguard its national security, when China
starts to make efforts at the state level to establish and improve the legal
system and enforcement mechanisms for its HKSAR to safeguard national security,
certain politicians in Western countries, including the U.S., become anxious.
They have made irresponsible
remarks about and pointed fingers at China, and even threatened and imposed
pressure on the country by saying that “they will react strongly” and “reassess
Hong Kong’s special status”. These people have actually been
interfering in China’s internal affairs and sabotaging the prosperity and
stability of Hong Kong.
National security legislation
is a matter that falls under the powers of the central government. In
any country of the world, unitary and federal alike, the national security
legislation belongs to the legislative power of the state.
The central government of
a country has the greatest and ultimate responsibility to safeguard the country’s
national security and is entitled to and exercises all necessary rights. This is
the basic theory and principle of national sovereignty as well as a common
practice of various countries in the world.
It’s natural and
necessary for China to safeguard its national sovereignty, security, and
development interests, and maintain the prosperity and stability of its HKSAR
by implementing relevant provisions concerning safeguarding national security
in its Constitution and the Basic Law of the HKSAR, as well as the decisions
and deployments made at the fourth plenary session of the 19th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), establishing
and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the SAR to
safeguard national security, and supporting the city in enhancing its law
enforcement capability.
It’s imperative and there
should be no delay for China to establish and improve the legal system and
enforcement mechanisms for the HKSAR to safeguard national security.
Since the disturbances
triggered last June by the revision of the extradition
bill in Hong Kong, groups advocating “Hong Kong’s
independence” and local
radical separatists have frequently collude with external forces to challenge
and break the bottom line of the “one country, two systems” principle, gravely
threatening China’s national security.
Some radicals have openly
advocated “Hong Kong’s independence”, touted “gaining independence through
armed revolution” and “public square constitution”. They even clamored that they
are fighting this war in the frontier for the U.S.
These radicals also insulted
and burned the Chinese national flag, stained Chinese national emblem, and
attacked offices of the central government in Hong Kong and organs of the SAR
government.
Moreover, violent
radicals in Hong Kong have set street fires and thrown gasoline
bombs and napalm bombs around, constantly escalating their misdeeds
and eventually turning which into homegrown terrorist attacks.
The violent activities of
radical protesters have seriously endangered China’s national security
and posed huge threats to Hong Kong’s efforts to maintain prosperity and
stability, as well as carry forward the “one country, two systems”
principle.
No country can allow activities
that split it or endanger its national security in its territory.
Western countries, such
as the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Canada, all have complete national
security laws that explicitly stipulate that anyone who engages in acts of secession,
terrorism, treason, espionage, subversion of state power, sedition and other
crimes will be sentenced to over ten years in prison, or probably life
imprisonment or death.
In particular, the U.S. has
a long list of laws aimed at safeguarding national security. Shortly after the
9/11 attacks, the country introduced a bunch of relevant laws
including
the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act.
In the U.S.,
deliberately spreading information or persuading others to overthrow
the government by force constitutes the crime of subversion of
state power and can lead to up to 20 years in prison, while those
who betrayed the country or offered help to enemies of the U.S. can be
sentenced to no less than five years in prison or death.
As for homegrown
terrorists, the U.S. police have the right to search their phones, emails, as
well as all kinds of records, including medical records and financial records,
so as to cut off extremists’ any possible access to the U.S.
The country has also
enacted laws to enhance national security education.
Besides, the U.S. government has funded courses and relevant studies on
national security in institutions of higher education and scientific research
institutions.
While building an ironclad
system to safeguard national security at home and even brazenly imposing
restrictions and “long-arm jurisdiction” on foreign investment under the excuse
of national security, certain politicians in the U.S. attempt to sabotage China’s
national security network and obstruct China’s efforts to safeguard its
national security.
What typical logic of
robbers and double standards these politicians follow!
Without long-term peace
and order there will be no development or prosperity. The proposal to establish
and improve the legal system and enforcement mechanisms at the state level for
the HKSAR to safeguard national security has demonstrated that Chinese
government’s resolve to safeguard its national sovereignty, security, and
development interests has never changed, nor has the country’s determination to
oppose any external force’s interference in Hong Kong affairs.
It’s believed that anyone
in the world who genuinely hopes for long-term peace and order in Hong Kong and
steady progress of the “one country, two systems” principle understands and
supports the justifiable move of China.
By arbitrarily blaming
China’s efforts to better guarantee long-term stability and peace in Hong Kong,
certain politicians of Western countries, including the U.S., have completely
exposed their true colors and the fact that they don’t want to be responsible
for people in Hong Kong at all.
It’s beyond
all question that playing double standards runs
counter to justice and is despised by the world all along.
Any attempt to interfere
in China’s internal affairs by meddling in Hong Kong affairs will be proven
wishful thinking that is bound to fail.
(Zhong Sheng is a pen name often used by People’s Daily to
express its views on foreign policy.)
No one is allowed to challenge international justice with double standards
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