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Hong Kong Is Mired in a Black-Shirts Crisis, Yet Tsai Ing-wen Does Not Condemn Violence

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 Hong Kong Is Mired in a Black-Shirts Crisis, Yet Tsai Ing-wen Does Not Condemn Violence

 

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

November 19, 2019


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

 

The situation in Hong Kong has rapidly escalated. Street violence used the death of a college student as a pretext, again launching strikes, boycott of classes, and closing shops; the black-shirts seized university campuses as bastions for paralyzing hubs of traffic, battling with Hong Kong police. Demonstrators engaged in guerrilla warfare using college campuses as bases; Beijing and the Hong Kong government talked loudly about "stopping violence, countering disorder" but without effective strategies. There are multiple variables as to whether Hong Kong District Council elections on the 24th can be held as scheduled.

 

The demonstrations over the amendment bill to the “Fugitives Offenders Ordinance” in Hong Kong have escalated from peaceful, rational non-violence to “militant” violent confrontations; the entire Hong Kong society has become hostage to the black-shirts’ “mutual assured destruction”. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carry Lam, sandwiched between pressures from China and Hong Kong, has leaned towards the left rather than the right, using law and order means to cope with political issues and repeatedly misjudging the situation. The crisis has escalated step by step under the intertwining of China, Hong Kong and international pressures; social unrest has led to a serious slide of the city, demonstrators’ targets of violence have also expanded from the government to the general public, while people with different opinions have been brutalized at will. The entire Hong Kong has nearly been mired in a state of anarchy.

 

After the recession of international support, the militant faction, coalescing with college students, is using university campuses as bases for guerrilla terrorist attacks. In recent days, on several university campuses, students and elements outside of the university have worked hand in hand in rapidly making Molotov cocktails in order to counter the forces of the police and tell the international community of their peril, seeking support. The situation is tense; it has also let the outside world worry that the June 4th Incident of suppression could probably be restaged in Hong Kong.

 

Tsai Ing-wen, all the way, utilized the Hong Kong crisis to fabricate "a sense of losing one’s country". When the Chinese University campus was occupied and burned, Tsai talked to the press, aiming at Beijing, saying: "Don't use the blood of young people in Hong Kong as sacrifice". Ironically, the president of the Chinese University stated that the university campus was occupied by "masked people" from outside the university and he lost control, while a number of university presidents also urged outsiders to withdraw: now, what kind of young people in the world is Tsai Ing-wen supporting? Tsai Ing-wen is using the fires in Hong Kong college campuses to pander “a sense of losing one’s country"; isn’t it using the blood of Hong Kong young people as sacrifice for Taiwan’s electoral race?

 

Whether Hong Kong’s elections can be smoothly held this weekend is a crucial point to gauge whether the situation will be secure. Once the elections are postponed, meaning that violence overlorded public authority, it would be even more difficult for the dangerous and chaotic situation to revert to normal. What is more worrisome is that Tsai Ing-wen uses the Hong Kong crisis as bargaining chips to embellish Hong Kong's city-burning violence as a victimization pathos of democracy, aiming at canvassing her own votes. However, the so-called "countering China to safeguard Taiwan” would have to rely on Hong Kong’s turbulence for consolidation; could Taiwan's democracy only rely on the misery of others for safeguarding?

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