[專頁公告] 英文學習「生態系」更新
English Learning Ecosystem Update
As I began exploring Instagram, I struggled to find a way to deliver useful academic content. Instagram posts typically focus on images, short clips, and concise text, which are attention grabbing but not always entirely conducive to language learning. I looked over the posts of established Instagram English learning accounts, and experimented with vocabulary posts and even news posts for a couple of weeks. Not wanting to post just images, I thought about creating something new even with the rigid format of the platform.
當我開始研究怎麼用IG,我想盡了各種辦法,希望能提供大家一些實用的學術內容。 IG 的特色著重在圖片、短片以及簡潔的文字,這樣的方式雖然很容易引人注目,卻不全然有助於語言學習。我瀏覽了 IG 上英文教學網紅的貼文,並在這幾週嘗試發了一些學術單字與新聞相關的文章。我並不想只是發一些圖片,而思考著要如何在既有框架下創作一些新的東西。
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A tenet of using tech in education is to engage students with what they are familiar with, not give them an entirely new platform that is difficult to use. So, how could I create a new series of Instagram posts that is both educational and unique? I thought about my goal to disseminate academic English resources, and how I could leverage my experience as a curriculum writer and voice recording artist for public school textbooks.
一個使用科技進行教育的原則是用學生熟悉的方式與他們互動,而非用了全新的平台卻使他們難以學習。那麼,我應該如何創作獨特且具教育意義的一系列全新 IG 發文呢?我想到了我傳遞學術英文資源的目標,以及思考到該如何發揮身為教科書編輯者與音頻錄製者的經驗。
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So far, this is what I have at the moment. I will post Word of the Day (每日一詞), high frequency vocabulary words that you see in academic texts and sometimes on the news. These Tier 2 academic vocabulary words are not exclusive to a single domain and complement the theme-based approach I’ve taken with my mind-mapping vocabulary class. You can find other vocabulary learning methods here.
這是我目前所想到的內容:我會發布「每日一詞」,也就是學術文章或是新聞中有時出現的高頻字彙。這些Tier 2學術詞彙並不限於單個領域,更補充了我在心智圖詞彙攻略課程中採用的主題式學習法。你還可以在下面網站找到其他詞彙學習方法。
🎓 詞彙學習方法:http://bit.ly/2JGXKvK
In these posts, I added the pronunciation, collocation, and example sentences of each word for students. These words will be helpful to university-level students who often read academic texts and the news. Students can access them by simply clicking on the hashtag 學術英語單字.
在這些貼文中,我為學生提供了發音、搭配用法和例句。這些單字會對經常閱讀學術文章和新聞的大學程度學生有所幫助。學生只要點貼文上的#學術英語單字即可看到貼文。
🎓 學術英文單字: https://bit.ly/3cxH091
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To help students use more precise and common academic phrases, I then added Academic Phrases (每日一句), set phrases that appear in both academic speech and writing. These phrases have varying functions from introducing a topic to comparing and contrasting ideas. There is a difference between speech and writing, so I picked words that could be used for both. If one is used only in a specific context, I will make note of it in the video recording. This series of posts will help students with language output, and can be found under the following hashtag 學術英語片語.
為了幫助學生使用更精準、更道地的常見學術用語,我們接著會進入「每日一句」,也就是在學術演說與寫作中常見的用語。這些片語具有不同的功能,範圍涵蓋介紹主題到比較、對比想法等等。而演講和寫作之間也有不同,所以我選擇了都可以使用的片語。如果只能在特定情況下使用,我會在影片中特別說明。該系列文章將會幫助學生提高語言輸出能力,可以在 # 學術英語片語找到。
🎓 學術英文片語: https://bit.ly/3aqaQcP
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Last, I will follow up with an abridged version of breaking news (時事英文) with high frequency collocations and audio recordings. This will provide students with the input of not only individual words, but how to use them in output (speech and writing) with context. While all these news posts might seem independent at first, I will eventually link and organize them by theme when there are enough posts. Along with my news class, these extra posts will help students stay aware of current events, acquire set phrases used in journalism, and develop critical thinking. These posts can currently be found under the hashtag EEL時事英文.
最後,我們會跟進精簡版的「時事英文」,其中包含高頻搭配詞與錄音資料。這些內容不僅可以提供你們輸入單字,而且可以幫助你們知道如何搭配情境輸出,再將這些內容使用在口說與寫作中。這些貼文一開始雖然看似獨立,當素材足夠後我會再將他們進行連結與整理。這些貼文和我的新聞課程將幫助學生維持對時事的敏銳度,掌握新聞中使用的固定用法,並養成批判性思維。這些貼文目前可以在 # EEL時事英文。
🎓 批判性思考問題大全: http://bit.ly/34rdtJ7
🎓 EEL時事英文: https://bit.ly/36tDusv
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There is a lot more I want to do to create an ecosystem of free academic English learning materials. I will continue modifying our post format to meet your needs, but these are my plans for Instagram thus far. Join us on our journey to make bilingual academic English resources more readily available to all! Let’s continue to learn and grow together!
建立免費的學術英文學習系統是件大工程,我會持續修改我們發文的格式以符合你們的需求與習慣,這些只是我目前 IG 學術英語學習計畫的一部分。加入我們的旅程來讓雙語的學術英文資源更加普及!讓我們一起學習與成長!
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🎓 學術英文單字: https://bit.ly/3cxH091
🎓 學術英文片語: https://bit.ly/3aqaQcP
🎓 EEL時事英文: https://bit.ly/36tDusv
🎓 批判性思考問題大全:http://bit.ly/34rdtJ7
🎓 該如何學習英文?http://bit.ly/3inxdCP
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Don’t Be Naive! Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is Standing on the Side Against Human Civilization
Peaceful world order after WWII had been established upon the philosophy worshiping multilateralism. The cultural basis supporting such multilateralism contained an imagination believing in the ultimate good of the respect for diversity.
The Rise of China and the Naivete of EU
However, as time progressed into the Post-Cold War era of the 90's, globalization in trade became the dominant trend. Following the global embrace of multilateralism and respect for diversity, it was believed that China would have been influenced by open and positive values once she had participated in this big family of global trade. Indeed, China took advantage of its role as the "world factory" and gained a huge economic leap forward. After China joined the WTO in 2000, within seventeen to eighteen years, China had grown nine-fold compared in terms of its aggregate economic volume. Furthermore, it surpassed Germany in 2005 and Japan between 2009 and 2010, becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
In particular, due to the global financial crisis derived from the subprime mortgage in 2007 and Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in 2008 in the United States, the PIGGS countries turned into victims in Europe. China thus took advantage of this crisis to expand its power, bridging China’s role as depicted in Hu JinTao's "China's peaceful rise" to that in Xi JinPing's "China dream." Finally, China has revealed its ambition to compete for the position as a world leader and a planner of a new world order. The United States has finally, recently woken up to this nightmare of Xi, who has long intended to use China's almighty economic power to achieve his political agenda and hegemony. Unfortunately, many EU countries who consider themselves as advanced, civilized, pro-human rights and respectful to diversification, such as Germany and France, still fail, or refuse, to see the CCP regime’s true color and remain extremely naive towards it.
Repulsion towards Vulgarity, Tolerance towards Violence
Ironically, the two leading EU countries, Germany and France, prefer a dictatorial emperor, Xi, over Trump elected by the Americans with their ballots. The two countries do not shy away from showing them disgusted by Trump’s vulgar behaviors, but reluctantly show intolerance towards Xi’s cruelty and dictatorship. As a result, the EU countries develop inconceivable and mysterious stubbornness: they loudly criticize countries practicing death penalty based on their own judicial system; however, they are generous and subdued when it comes to the violence happening in HongKong where the HongKong police and Chinese GongAn basically bypass all applicable, or reasonable, laws. We should find this contrast deeply disturbing.
Seeing CCP through the eyes of Mao
In fact, these european countries and the western world are deluded by the so-called “respect for diversity.” Let’s use the wisdom of the CCP’s spiritual leader, Mao Ze Dong, as a framework to rethink this diversity concept in civilization. In his work “Correct Handling of Contradictions Between People,” published in 1957, Mao clearly classified social contradictions into “contradictions of two different natures”: “contradictions between ourselves and the enemy” and “internal contradictions among the people”. Contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic, for example the contradictions between the exploiting and the exploited classes; but contradictions among people is non-antagonistic. Therefore, the former can not be mediated and resolved, but the latter one can be. Mao further advocated that contradictions between ourselves and the enemy should be resolved by dictatorship, but contradictions between the people should be resolved by a method of “cooperation-criticism-cooperation.” In other words, incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy can only be solved by suppression, but internal contradictions can be softened by cooperation.
Civilization and CCP - Two Incompatible Conflicting Systems
It is time for us to recognize that CCP, a sovereign of authoritarianism and digital dictatorship, should not have been regarded as a representation of the diversity of human civilization. Diversity should be defined based on a founded premise, i.e., a premise confined with certain agreements and consensus, necessary and beneficial for composing diversity. In fact, the value CCP stands for is against the universally accepted values of the world, just like the “incompatible contradictions between ourselves and the enemy”, as Mao said. As long as the existence of the CCP regime continues, human civilization will continue to be persecuted. It can be seen in the current situation of Hong Kong, where China approved the new bill of national security, thereby destroying the remaining freedom guaranteed to Hong Kongers, and assigned the “secret” police gangs to enforce the so-called “justice”.
To see the contracting natures of civilization and the CCP regime, we make an analogy with food. Normally, we respect other people’s choice for food. For instance, Ann prefers rice, Bob prefers noodles, John is a meat lover, Mary only eats seafood, etc. Although those four people have different choices of what they like to eat, they respect each other’s choices of food. However, when Daniel comes over and tells the group that he prefers to eat faeces and needs to be respected for his preference, we can start to see the ridiculousness in it. At first, the four people think eating faeces is a personal choice for Daniel, and Daniel can do whatever he/she wants as long as he/she does it at his/her home. The problem rises when Daniel starts to force other people to eat faeces, while the other four people think faeces is inedible, and should never be served on a plate.
The food analogy tells us that the CCP regime is inherently against human civilization. As a reasonable human being could not categorize feces as food, we should not be tricked to believe that the authoritarian regime of China can blend in and contribute to human civilization. The CCP regime is incompatible to human civilization just like we should not consider to eat a meal with feces in it. As the master of CCP, Mao, admitted, one can never resolve the contradiction between the authoritarian regime of China and human civilization. The existence of Chinese authoritarian regime is a symbol for deprivation of human civilization. For us to maintain and preserve human civilization, Chinese authoritarian regime must be eradicated. There is no room for the coexistence of the CCP regime and human civilization.
Draw a Bottom Line to the Respect for Diversity
Therefore, among western countries, the United States have started or should start to realize that although diversity needs to be respected and tolerated, a reasonable bottom line should be drawn to such respect. Like what I have mentioned above, rice, noodles, meat, seafood and so on should be viewed as food; however, as we can all reasonably agree, feces should not be a part of the league. The United States is now acting to exclude “feces” from the democratic league and draw a bottom line for respect-worthy diversity. However, leading EU countries are still trapped in their fancy, unconditional acceptance to “respect for diversity.” Such respect is hypocritical, empty and baseless. Now, you should be able to understand why leftards in the EU would vigorously criticize death sentences executed under a legitimate judicial system but remain indifferent to the CCP regime’s merciless, relentless and oppressive killings. Namely, they simply set a wrong premise, including feces as an eligible option for “diversity.” As for those who embrace the CCP regime because of economic benefits, they do not even deserve to be viewed as EU leftards, but merely gold diggers in the EU.
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主教、神父、各位兄弟姊妹,大家好!很感恩可以在這裏跟大家分享,大家還是平平安安。我想起一位從大陸偷偷地來香港返教會,「宗教自由行」的姊妹,她說,想不到竟然可以在街頭報佳音,如果在大陸做這事的話,一早就被拒捕了!原來,我們可以站在街上祈禱、唱聖詩,是這麼美好的事情!
今次逃犯條例的修訂,令政府有一個很大的讓步,我可以說,這是一個奇蹟、是一個神蹟!
為我們這群,一直研究中國大陸政治的朋友來說,看著所有原先的蛛絲馬跡,中央對港的方針,是沒有讓步這計劃的!我跟大家說,原本這樣的逃犯條例,是怎樣的一回事:北京和林鄭月娥,他們以為這條例必定順利通過!為什麼?
首先,立法會絕對有足夠的票數去支持、商界也在中央的操控下一一「跪低」,即使你不情願,你不願意收回你的司法覆核也好,你最好也要跪低。
第二,在民意而言,北京已經評估過香港狀況,就算最多反對聲音、最壞程度,北京原先的評估,反對者就是佔中的規模;而佔中的規模,特區政府和警方已綽綽有餘,足以瓦解這行動於無形。兼且,這幾年來,香港的警隊, 已經不再是同樣的警隊了!香港的警隊已經進化了很多。
在後勤,我們亦知道解放軍已預備好。上一次佔領行動的時候,解放軍駐港部隊的深圳後勤部隊已經演練了;他們以四人枱一個人的規模,預備進行必要的介入,但最終沒有用到,但是他們是有部署的。如果有1萬人的集會,四個人抬1人,換句話說,就是說有4萬兵力在後勤準備。今次,不要以為我們看不見明顯的徵兆;解放軍駐港部隊已經不經不覺地做了不少工作。大家可記得?山竹襲港時,市面和郊野公園有大片破壞,解放軍駐港部隊幾百人,居然越過了駐軍法,沒有通知特區政府的情況下,可以出兵幾百人,穿着制服,他們以清理郊區的名義,動員幾百人,沒有駐軍令、沒有適當程序,他們就派了幾百個解放軍來了。這一點,我自己認為是十分危險的訊號。
第三,除了因為林鄭信心爆棚外,還有中央的因素在內。如果我們只看表面的話,會以為(修例)只是林鄭個人決定。其實,逃犯條例的修訂,中央跟香港談了很多年了,他們問香港要人,要了很多年了!今次在這修訂逃犯條例的大背景下,中央政府希望「法律武器化」香港;簡單來說,就是用任何香港的程序和法律去實行國家安全,這至高無上的保障。中央想通過這條移交逃犯條例,其實是一條「萬能Key」,文匯大公的權威解讀,國內中港智囊研究多年中港移交條例,除了一般所說:大陸犯罪的人匿藏在香港、除了香港人在國內犯罪回到香港外...... 更重要的計劃,就是威脅「國家安全」的罪犯。
在文匯大公報,5月23日引用權威人士解讀:當遇到威脅國家安全的罪犯時,一般是由香港,按照香港法律程序去處理的。那換句話說,是有不一般的情況了?當不一般的情況出現了,是不是就是可以超越香港程序去處理?而在國內研究這問題的智囊,很清楚跟我們說,在中國法律上,是沒有「政治犯」的!我們從前說反革命罪犯、或現在煽動顛覆國家政權罪犯,他們並非「政治犯」,而只是三個字:刑事犯!當我們面對刑事犯的時候,是否不引渡呢?是不是用政治犯為保護罩,我們就不引渡危害國家安全的罪犯呢?國內的智囊說,國內的邏輯是相反的!正是這些人破壞國家安全,香港更不能夠成為國家安全的漏洞,更加要去移交(罪犯),這是最恐怖的。
為什麼我們覺得恐怖呢?因為我們怎樣去定義一個人危害國家安全呢?那標準是相當之闊!在內地,只要你所謂「得罪共產黨」,你做一些黨不喜歡你做的事;你批評中央、你去支援內地的宗教,也許你報導一些新聞,內地不喜歡的......很容易你就會被檢控。
以往很多人被「砌生豬肉」(誣告),用藏毒罪、用偷竊罪、用間諜罪...... 被指控,是很恐怖的情況!我們中國大陸所行的體制,是人民民主專政,簡單來說就是「專政」兩個字!
專政是什麼呢?專政就是說,當面對政府所認為的「敵人」時,就可以不需要依照法律辦事、可以越過法律。如果大家還記得,在內地發生過不少專政事件,劉霞為什麼會完全沒有在法律程序下,被剝奪人身自由、被軟禁這麼久?銅鑼灣書店的相關人士,為什麼可以在香港跟泰國等地被綁架;被綁了之後,自願被剝奪所有法律權利,不見家人,在電視機面前認罪......為什麼呢?因為當時中國政府正在實行專政。
國家主席劉少奇,用憲法的名義叫大家不可以這樣去迫死人, 到最後......他們將一個被鬥到遍體鱗傷,急需醫院治療的一個國家主席,丟在河南的一個密室,失救至死。專政還可以令十大元帥賀龍,他患有糖尿病和各種疾病;死的時候被人專政,把高質量的葡萄糖液,打進他的身體,葡萄糖液與糖尿病結合...... 令他的腎臟衰竭、身體衰竭而死。
當一個國家說自己依法治國,但隨時可以行專政的時候,香港的法律開了一扇門,與這種專政的做法接連、以國家安全名義...... 這是多麼恐怖的事呢?而這個程序去修例,就是原來的劇本!
原來的劇本亦包括,中央在年頭的時候,審視全國的形勢,去防止各種的失控,各種不穩定因素,各種的風險。國家開了全國最高省部級的領導幹部大會,有習近平在中央黨校開講,很出名的什麼灰犀牛、黑天鵝、六個穩定,就是從這會議中出來的。當時中共領導人,是很害怕一件事: 所謂的中國「逢九必亂」,逢年份有9,他們就容易有大亂,中共見證着:
1949年,國共的更替;59年,大饑荒;69年,中蘇珍寶島之戰,國家主席劉少奇被鬥死;79年,中越戰爭;89年,六四事件;99年,法輪功圍中南海;2009年,新疆七五騷亂。
2019年頭的時候,中共已經開了全國大會去防止有任何混亂的情況。他們做了很多措施,亦都分享了很多經驗怎去處理問題。當時在中央的劇本中,香港的局勢可以說:穩如泰山!沒有可能在逢九必亂的其中一亂,是沒有可能的。他們所擔心的是經濟、與及萬一出現的失業問題,中美貿易之戰,絕對不是香港的事情。
近年,中央領隊領導人對香港的研判,他們認為香港局勢是非常的大好!為什麼這樣說呢?因為全面管治權已逐步落實,立法會受到建制的加持,由於這些社運、甚至旺角騷亂的人,相繼被重判;各種不同政見的人被DQ,整個社會的公民意識越來越低;北京與林鄭政府是極有信心的,這條例,不可能不通過!習近平早年說怎樣處理群眾運動時,清楚地說到:他剛剛上台,要扭轉胡、溫時代的那種妥協作風。習近平說:不可以:小鬧小解決、大鬧大解決、不鬧不解決!他不能讓這情況持續下去!習近平任內對港的多番措施,沒有一件證明他是妥協的;除了梁振英的不連任,而當時,是因為他在建制及商界中拿不到票 。有數票的人說,取得601票已是十分困難了,不是群眾的力量造成。而今次面對6月9日103萬人大遊行,大家可以看到,林鄭與北京政府當時的不妥協,遊行完後,無論人數有多少,依然故我,條例繼續。
當我們常常會問:天主你在哪裏?天主,為什麼香港可以被人摧殘至此?不知怎樣來了一個逆轉 !當我們很多時質疑青年是「廢青」,在612星期三,出現了一個大家都不想看見、但卻成了一個逆轉的場面!一班青年人,他們有些是寫了遺書的,決定自己去擋子彈的情況下,他們去衝擊立法會、衝擊警方防線!當然從法律來說,他們的做法是犯法的;但是從一個公義的角度,他們認為這事情不應該這樣繼續下去,所以,他們做了抗爭。而這種抗爭,竟令到已經升級變形的香港警隊,殺紅了眼,連內部評估,也認為當警方被衝擊後,出去對群眾的清場用槍、去射頭部、用各種武器去攻擊一些無辜的人;警隊的一些內部評估,也認為是過火了。是這情況令到整件事逆轉!整個國際的壓力,令到北京政府難以承受。
那原先他們的計劃是怎樣呢?在內地的電視,和平集會的鏡頭全部被刪去,被描繪成示威者衝擊警察、暴徒般襲擊,今次他們想說成香港暴徒襲擊政府,以拿取道德高地。殊不知,警方濫用武器、過度執法、逆轉了整個畫面!原本習近平的計劃:叫做「楓橋經驗」,那就是遇到群眾事件時,就地解決,矛盾不上交!煎你的皮、但內裡燒不焦;鬥你的表面,但內部不會出事......
但很可惜,今次特區政府不單止沒有「矛盾不上交」,不但上交中央、還上了國際層面;令中共面對非常大的壓力,因而出現了一個逆轉。
我認為,這是天主的眷顧、天主的神跡!
到最後,我想用一個眼神去完結我這個分享:我記得,在612過後,我跟朋友去了一所聖堂,在聖堂門口見到一對警察,虎視眈眈,還是非常強硬的態度,他們想去捉拿聖堂內的青年。我在聖堂內看見一位青年,穿著黑背心,眼神很惶恐。我問他,可要幫他買件衣服,讓他離開?他說:「不用了」,他在聖堂得到了保護,找到了他的家,真正的父親、母親。當我行出教堂外,警察的目光,好像張牙舞爪,想要抓一個孩子......
希望上主繼續眷顧我們,賜我們平安;希望傷者能得平安...... 主佑香港!
2019年6月19日晚上
▶️ 祈禱會直播 https://www.facebook.com/1764198537146061/posts/2394608974105011?s=548400948&sfns=mo
▶️再談逃犯條例修定研討會 https://www.facebook.com/hkjpcom/videos/2180158835373248?s=667412853
“Hope in despair”
sharing of Mr Lui Ping Kuen at the “freedom from fear” prayer meeting
Bishop, father, brothers and sisters:
I am so grateful to share with you all here and I am grateful that we are all safe. I think of a sister who sneaked in Hong Kong to attend church services, “Religious Individual Visit”. She was surprised that there was street caroling in Hong Kong because one will be arrested if one does this in the Mainland. It is so wonderful that we can pray and sing hymns on the street!
I can claim that it is a miracle that the government retreats on the extradition bill!
For people like us who have studied Chinese Politics for a long time, we found that the Central Government had no plan to retreat in their policy towards Hong Kong from the clues we observed. I told you what the extradition bill was about originally: Beijing and Carrie Lam thought that the bill must be passed smoothly! Why?
First of all, there were definitely enough votes in the Legislative Council to pass the bill, and the business sector also submitted under the control of the Central Government, whether you were willing or not, whether you wanted to withdraw the judicial review application or not, you’d better submit to it.
Secondly, the Central Government has assessed the views of people in Hong Kong and they thought that the worst case scenario would be similar to that of the scale of Umbrella Movement only. They believed that the HKSAR Government and the Police could handle that scale of protest easily. Moreover, Hong Kong Police Force is not the same as the one a few years ago and has improved a lot. We also knew that the People's Liberation Army was well prepared to support. The logistic unit of People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison in Shenzhen has drilled during the previous occupying movement. They prepared to intervene, on a scale of 4 soldiers to remove 1 protester, when necessary. Although it was not carried out eventually, they were prepared. If there is a rally of 10 thousands people, 4 soldiers removing 1 protester, that means there are 40 thousands soldiers preparing to support. We can see significant signs that People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison has done a lot when we are not aware of it. Do you still member, there was extensive damage in urban and rural areas during the strike of severe typhoon Mangkhut? A few hundred soldiers from the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison wearing their uniform, bypassing the Garrison Law and without informing the HKSAR Government, were mobilised in the name of clearing the rural areas. Ignoring the Garrison Law and proper procedure, they sent a few hundred soldiers. I think this is a very dangerous sign.
Thirdly, besides the overconfidence of Carrie Lam, the Central Government is also a key factor. On the surface, we would think this (amendment of the bill) is solely Carrie Lam’s own decision. In fact, the amendment of extradition bill has been discussed between the Central Government and the HKSAR Government for many years. They have been asking Hong Kong for people they wanted for many years! The Central Government wants to make law their weapon in Hong Kong, to put it simply, the Central Government wants to exercise national security by using any procedures and laws in Hong Kong, this is the ultimate protection. The Central Government wants to pass this extradition bill, which works for nearly anything. From the authoritative interpretation by the Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao, the think tank in Mainland which has been studying extradition law between Mainland and Hong Kong for many years, that it is because, besides the situations that the criminals from the Mainland hide in Hong Kong or Hong Kong people committed offences in the Mainland and hide in Hong Kong, more importantly the criminals that threaten “national security”.
On 23 May, Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao quoted interpretation from authority that it is normally handled by Hong Kong according to Hong Kong legal procedures when there are criminals that threaten national security. In other words, there are abnormal situations? Will it bypass the Hong Kong legal procedures to handle the case when abnormal situation occurs? Member of think tank in the Mainland who studies this issue told us clearly that, there is no “political offenders” under Chinese law. No matter the “counter-revolutionary” offenders in the past or the current “inciting subversion of state power” offenders, they are not “political offenders” but criminal offenders! Are we not to extradite a criminal offender? Are we not to extradite offenders threatening national security by using “political offender” as a protection shield? Member of think tank in the Mainland said, the logic in Mainland is the opposite! As these people cause damage to national security, Hong Kong should not be the loophole of national security and more justified to extradite (offenders). This is the most dangerous part.
Why do we think that this is dangerous? It is because it is very easy for one to be defined as threatening national security. In the Mainland, if you do anything that the Communist Party doesn’t want you to do and upset the Communist Party, such as criticising the Central Government, supporting the religions in Mainland, reporting some news they don’t like. You are easy to be prosecuted.
In the past, there were a lot of people being prosecuted with false accusations including possession of drugs, theft, espionage. It is very horrible! The system in Mainland China is called “People’s democratic dictatorship”, to put it simply, dictatorship! What is dictatorship? It means that the Government do not need to follow the law and can bypass the law when dealing with their “enemies”. There were many incidents occurred under dictatorship in the Mainland if you still remember. Why were Liu Xia put under house arrest, deprived of personal freedom, for such a long time without following any legal procedures? Why were the people related to Causeway Bay Books kidnapped in places like Hong Kong and Thailand, then voluntarily deprived all legal rights, not to meet their families, and pleaded guilty on television? Why? It is because the Chinese Government is practising dictatorship at that time.
President Liu Shaoqi asked people not to persecute and caused the death of others in the name of constitution, at the end… They left a president who was seriously hurt by the crowd and was required to be sent to hospital for treatment urgently, in a room in Henan secretly and died as he was not saved in time. Dictatorship also made one of the then 10 Marshals of the Communist Party, He Lung, who suffered from diabetes and other illnesses, dead after an injection of a large dose of glucose. The glucose and diabetes caused his death by kidney failure and multiple organ failure.
When a country claims that it exercises rule by law, but it can also exercise dictatorship at anytime, if the Hong Kong legal system will be connected to this dictatorship, in the name of national security… how horrible is this? And this is the original script, which the law would be amended according to this procedure! The original script also included that, the Central Government has assessed the situation of the whole country to prevent any out-of-control situation, to prevent any uncertainties and risks in the beginning of this year. A countrywide meeting for officials of provincial level was held and Xi Jinping gave a speech at the Central Party School. Those famous saying included “grey rhinocero”, “black swan”, “six certainties” are originated from this meeting. The leaders of Communist Party were scared of one thing: the so-called “chaos in the years ending in 9” as the Communist Party witnessed chaos happened in those years ending in 9: 1949 - the Kuomintang was replaced by the Communist; 1959 - the Great Famine; 1969 - Sino-Russian Zhenbao dao War and President Liu Shaoqi was dead; 1979 - Sino-Vietnamese War; 1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests; 1999 - Falun Gong practitioners surrounded the Zhongnanhai (Central Government compound in Beijing); 2009 - 5th July Incident in Xinjiang.
In the beginning of 2019, countrywide meeting was held by the Communist Party to prevent any chaotic situation. They have done a lot and shared experience on handling problems. On the script of the Central Government at that time, the situation in Hong Kong was extremely stable. This was impossible for Hong Kong to become one of the chaos in the “chaos in the years ending in 9”. This was impossible. They were worried about the economics and the possible unemployment problem, US-China Trade War, definitely not Hong Kong issue.
The leaders of Central Government assessed that the circumstance in Hong Kong was very favourable in recent years. Why did they think so? It is because overall jurisdiction is gradually exercising in Hong Kong, the Legislative Council is supported by the pro-establishment camp; the social activists or even people involved in MongKok Riot were serving severe sentences; people of different political views were disqualified, civil awareness of the community became lower and lower; Beijing and Carrie Lam’s team were very confident in passing the bill. Talking about how to handle social movement, Xi Jinping stated that he would change the compromising style of Hu(Jintao)-Wen(Jiabao) Era when he came to power. Xi Jinping said no to “small conflict solves on a small scale, large conflict solves on a large scale, no conflict then nothing will be solved”! He could not allow this situation to continue. None of the policies towards Hong Kong showed any compromise during Xi Jinping’s rule, except no second term of office for CY Leung. It was because he could not get enough votes from the pro-establishment camp and the business sector at that time. One who counted the number of votes (before the election to estimate the number) said that it was difficult enough to get 601 votes. It was not a result of the power of the people. There were 1 million and 30 thousands people joining the demonstration on 9th June, we could see that Carrie Lam and Beijing Government did not compromise. No matter how many people joined the demonstration, they continued the procedures to pass the bill after the demonstration.
When we keep asking: “Where are you God?” “God, why are Hong Kong people tortured like this?” Here comes a reverse! When we question the youngsters as “useless”, on Wednesday 12th June, a situation that we all didn’t want to see occurred, but it made a reverse! A group of youngsters, some of them have written their testaments and decided to block the bullets, charged against Legislative Council and the Police cordon lines! Of course, their acts were illegal from the legal point of view; however, from the point of justice, they didn’t think that this issue should continue in this way. Therefore, they protested. This kind of protest unexpectedly triggered the uncontrolled attack by the upgraded and distorted Hong Kong Police. Even the internal assessment of the Police Force considered that the Police who used guns, shot in the head and used different weapons to attack innocent people, to clear the scene after being clashed, went too far. This is what made the issue reversed! The international pressure made it unbearable for Beijing Government.
Then what was their original plan? On the Mainland television, shots of peaceful assembly were all deleted and would be described as the protesters crashing the Police and attacking like mob. They wanted to claim that Hong Kong mob attacked the Government to gain moral high ground. However, excessive use of force by the Police reversed the whole situation. The original plan of Xi Jinping was called "Fengqiao Experience” which solves the social events on site and not to escalate it; attacks the surface but not to affect the core part. Unfortunately, the HKSAR Government could not solve the problem on site and escalated to the Central Government, and even reached an international level. It created a very big pressure for the Communist Party and made a reverse.
I think this is mercy from God, a miracle from God!
Lastly, I would like to conclude my sharing by the expression shown in one’s eyes. I remember I went to a church with friends after the 12th June incident and saw a pair of policeman at the entrance of the church, looking aggressive and wanted to catch the youngsters in the church. I saw a youngster in church, wearing a black vest, looked terrified in his eyes. I asked him whether I should help him to get clothes so that he could leave. He answered no. He found protection and home in the church, found his real father and mother. When I left the church, from the look of the policemen, it seemed to me that they wanted to catch a child…
May God continues to bless us with peace and may the wounded be given peace. God bless Hong Kong!
Evening of the 19th of June
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