Hong Kong: China's Olympic Opportunity
Written byOiwan Lam
Legislative Councilor Martin Lee was accused of inviting interference from U.S to China. ESWN brings together Martin Lee's article from the Wall Street Journal, member of Executive Council Tsang Yok-sing's criticism on Martin Lee and local newspapers report on the issue.
Written byOiwan Lam
15 comments
One thing interest me whether “J” is Chinese or American. I am surprise to know people are still thinking the current Chinese government ia s tyranny governemnt. They either are ignorant or they never been to mainland in past five years.I havc the fortune to be Chinese born in HK and living here for decades and it is naive to label HK people as native or mainland Chinese as most of our parent are immigrants in the 60’s. Only in the recent years , we have the concept of new immigrants from mainland as the growth of economy of HK has made the new mainland Chinese mostly from lower social class become a disadvantageoius group in HK. There isn’t much different about the identification as a Chinese between the new immigrants or old immigrants, there however is a difference between pro-western or patriotic Chinese when seeing the matters about HK. It is a shame to see that the pro-western group typical example of Martin Lee is always seeking foreign intervention of domestic affair of China.They however never have the gut to do something in mainland to show their discontent nor they can confess their pro-western doggie subconsciousness when pointed out by others. I still need God’s teaching to learn to tolerate nonsense accuse and smear.
Yes, Lee is supposedly Chinese. But does he really want to help China? Is he really for democracy? Ask yourself what Lee had done to get democracy from the Hongkong British ruler before June 1997.
Anyway his letter amused me more than anything else. Why would anyone think of going to the U.S. to plead for democracy and freedom when that country assassinated democratically-elected leaders of other countries(1973, Chile) and overthrowing democratic country and installing dictator (1953, Iran)? It just tells me that Lee is ignorant and politically naive.
It is a terrible democracy proposed by Martin Lee when only he has the ” freedom of speech” in pressing his ? mother country through foreign enagement. No matter what mein theme of his Wall Street essay is, he never can deny his own his words that he wants to press China by an external forece. It is only fool cowaard’s thought that improvement of western standard human right can only be achieved by external force onto China. It is shameful to see western
intervention had caused a complete chao in Iraq when they are trying to bring their western values by force and at same time get their most wanted oil!!! Martin Lee’s so called patriotism is a lie to others and himself especially when his doggie subconscciousness is pointed out by real patriotic Chinese..
The US of A checking on China? By all means, NO! (I am not Chinese, by the way!) Yankees, Go Home! sounds “truer” today than it did decades ago… But Lee is right in one thing: Any country that makes promises should keep them. If China said, give us the Olympics, we will improve on human rights, or reduce pollution, or whatever, then they should do it — or not hold the Olympics. BUT, what we should also do and ask for, is that the US of A be held accountable for all the atrocities it commits, that Mr. Bush, and all other moguls in that country, government, etc., be held accountable for the crimes they commit, for the abuses, rapes, bombings, invasions, etc., be it or not in the name of freedom and democracy! Hypocrisy is not punishable by law, but what the US of A does, is. Why are American presidents not taken to War Crimes Tribunals? Who, on earth, elected the US of A as the guardian angel of world freedom and peace? Angel of Death maybe!… I am not for terrorism, but when we condemn the Taliban, religious extremism, and all the rest of the world’s problems on the Middle East, or on communist countries, we are just masquerading the big problem: the white man thirst for supremacy! The idea, WRONG idea, that the US of A, and whites, etc., are better and should be the measuring rod for the rest of the world. Well, it ain’t so. Maybe we do not like what China does at times, but hack!, I must say, if there is one country in the world today that can make the US of A think twice, even maybe shake a bit and wonder… it is China. Democracy does not exist in China? Neither does it in the US of A; some pale shadow of it, yep, maybe… but not real democracy, not real human rights, not real freedom. I will believe that when I see Mr. Bush trialled for war crimes. But what can we expect of a country that kills his own, when they truly believe in freedom, people like M. L. King Jr., Kennedy, etc. Yeah, I would like to see China clean up (improve, not white wash!) its human rights records, and pollution, etc. but so would I like to see the US of A give up on nuclear arms, mines, pollution, and, yeah, improve on human rights too!… stop bombing other countries, robbing 3rd world countries and fostering poverty, getting moguls such as Wallmart accountable, etc. etc. etc. The list is and will be never ending!
Cone on. Whatever slogans the Chinese use to encourage their own people, it for the Chinese to implement. It is not the same as inviting a foreign power to ‘monitor’ their progress. Martin Lee thinks CHinese are children. So he goes to his big Daddy in Washington to ask that big Daddy white man keep an eye on the ‘childish’ Chinese.
Say if President Bush promises tax-cuts to the American people. Would it be any business of the Chinese government to monitor Bush to ensure he keeps his promises? Of course not. Would Americans run to Hu Jintao and ask them to ‘monitor’ Bush’s performance on this issue. Of course not. And if they did they would rightly be excoriated as traitors.
Of course the greatest abuser of human rights in the world today is the USA and Britain. Hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children have been massacred in Iraq and Afghanistan – many more than the several hundred political ‘dissidents’ in China today.
But of course Martin Lee will say nothing about that. So Martin Lee, true to form is just a running dog – a traitor and a lickspittle to the white man.