Anti-China Washington politicians on Monday launched another attempt to foil the new National Security Law promulgated in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on June 30 by imposing “sanctions” on another four mainland and Hong Kong officials who are being tasked to implement or supervise the implementation of the law.
Most countries or jurisdictions, if not all, in the world have installed their own laws to safeguard national security because it is not only a universally recognized right sanctioned by international law and covenants but also a constitutional obligation for all governments. For example, the United States itself has dozens of such laws at the disposal of its authorities.
But those Washington politicians have picked only on Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. “Hypocrisy” and “double standards” are the only words a fair-minded person can come up with, aside from being shocked by such blatant interference in China’s internal affairs in gross violation of the principle of non-interference established in the United Nations Charter.
Words such as “freedom”, “democracy” and “human rights” were cited. But the machinations against Hong Kong’s security law are transparent. It requires no sophisticated process of deduction for any thinking person to understand how those politicians are filled with such a deep animosity toward Hong Kong’s security law.
The law has been vilified and desperately targeted because by criminalizing acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with external forces with penalties of up to life in prison, it has effectively deterred most of the agents, proxies and foot soldiers who had been in the service of or in collusion with those anti-China politicians from continuing with their acts of subversion in the HKSAR, the only place in China that had previously not been protected by any security law and thus had been used as a bridgehead to subvert China. This is evidenced by the fact that only a few political zealots have continued to carry on their traitorous acts and been arrested for crimes covered by the National Security Law since its promulgation.
Intimidation — including “sanctions” against Hong Kong and its officials — has proved to be a failure. Deputy Police Commissioner Edwina Lau Chi-wai said on Tuesday that the US government’s attempt to use “so-called sanctions” to strike a blow to the force’s work on national security would be futile. Senior Superintendent Steve Li Kwai-wah, another of the latest officials to be sanctioned, said on the same day that maintaining national security is the natural responsibility of police officers anywhere, and that he is determined to enforce the law and is unshaken by the “sanctions”. How could anti-China politicians shake China’s resolve and commitment to safeguarding national security, considered part of its core national interests, when they could not even make its ordinary officials falter?
