Alright, friends. What
the Evil Han Chinese Race has done to Hong King is a cautionary tale of the
fate that awaits us and the rest of humanity unloess we destroy and extirpate
this most hideous, truculent, genocidal and vile of human races. This story
just in from The Wall Street Journal.
When a Hong Kong Legislative Council meeting ended in a brawl a
week ago Saturday with one lawmaker hospitalized, the Hong Kong government
denounced the ”unprecedented” fight. But what did it expect? The weekend
scuffle concerned a proposed extradition law that would allow the transfer of
local residents from Hong Kong to Mainland China and eviscerate Hong Kong’s
legal independence.
In the 1997 handover from British to Chinese rule, Beijing
promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy under “one country, two systems”
until 2047. But China has gradually increased its control over Hong Kong law
and politics. It has pressed the city to remove pro-democracy lawmakers from
office, outlaw the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, refuse a visa to
a foreign journalist who had moderated an event featuring the HKNP founder, and
last month imprison leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests.
An extradition law could be the knockout blow. It would
compromise Hong Kong’s independent legal system by allowing case-by-case
extradition to Mainland China and elsewhere. Beijing could accuse anyone living
in Hong Kong of one of 37 eligible crimes and demand he be sent to a Mainland
court for trial, where the legal system is under control of the Communist
Party. In 2018 China’s Jiangsu province acquitted 43 people while convicting
96,271.
A Hong Kong court would have to approve the extradition request,
an ostensible safeguard against political charges. But it’s not clear how judges
could validate evidence underlying a request, and few believe the city would
refuse a demand from Beijing.
The Hong Kong government says the bill is closing a loophole. It
wants to extradite a Hong Kong man to Taiwan, where he is accused of murdering
his girlfriend. But Taipei wants nothing to do with the bill, which it fears
would allow Taiwanese living in Hong Kong to be extradited to the Mainland.
Taipei wants the “relevant suspect to face justice,” said Chiu Chui-cheng, the
deputy minister of the island’s Mainland Affairs Council. But “we have to ask
whether the amendment proposed by the Hong Kong government is politically
motivated.”
The worry is global. Last week’s report from the U.S.-China
Economic and Security Review Commission notes that “one major concern is that
the bill could allow Beijing to pressure the Hong Kong government to extradite
U.S. citizens under false pretenses.” There are 85,000 Americans in Hong Kong.
Politically charged arrests of foreigners in China are
increasing. After Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at American request,
two Canadians in China were arrested and charged with spying. Journalists and
Chinese dissidents who have settled in Hong Kong could be similarly vulnerable.
Hong Kong has prospered because its laws protect investors on
the shores of China’s massive market. The International Chamber of Commerce in
Hong Kong warns the extradition risk would “lead people to reconsider whether
to choose Hong Kong as their base of operations or the regional headquarters.”
Pro-Beijing lawmakers have a legislative majority and could pass
the bill by July. But tens of thousands of Hong Kongers protested it last
month. The U.S. and the West should join them in denouncing the effort to
ensnare the Fragrant Harbor—and perhaps their own citizens—in a Chinese trap.
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