Xinhua International Review： Hong Kong doesn’t need the ＂American campaign＂ style.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 9 th: Hong Kong does not need the "American election" set.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Liming
The election of the sixth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was successfully held, and Li Jiachao was elected with a high vote. The election process was legal, fair and orderly. However, it is outrageous that some forces in the United States and the West can’t sit still and move out those "routines" that are smeared and slandered.
What the United States and the West repeat is nothing more than platitudes such as "democracy", "freedom" and "political pluralism". The core is to attack Hong Kong’s electoral system and ask Hong Kong to copy the Western system. The question is, are western elections really advanced?
On May 8, Lee Ka Chiu John was elected as the candidate for the sixth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This is Lee Ka Chiu John (fifth from left) attending the press conference. (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Xiaoyu)
More than 150 years ago, Mark Twain, a famous American writer, wrote the well-known classic novel Running for Governor, which vividly described the chaos of American elections at that time — — All kinds of "house of cards" bridges are dazzling, and all kinds of inferior election methods have come out one after another, which can even make candidates become "perjury criminals, thieves, corpse thieves, drunkards, fraudsters and blackmail experts … …” Compared with more than 150 years ago, the media has evolved and the methods are "advanced", but the election chaos in the United States is still frequent, and the party struggle and political polarization are getting worse and worse. Even the American own media have revealed it from time to time. In essence, the election in the United States is an out-and-out money politics, a game in which the powerful and powerful take turns to share the spoils and play with the "revolving door" of power and money, which has nothing to do with ordinary people. In recent years, have we seen all kinds of election farce less?
Hong Kong is China’s Hong Kong. There is no need to engage in the "house of cards" preferred by American and Western politicians in Hong Kong elections, and the chaos of American "running for governor" is abandoned. Some time ago, due to loopholes in the electoral system, some radical separatist forces such as anti-China rebels and "Hong Kong independence" were able to "drill" into the governance structure of the SAR, wantonly kidnapping the overall interests of Hong Kong society, seriously damaging the well-being of the general public, greatly endangering the democratic development of Hong Kong and endangering national security. To this end, the central government has decisively improved the electoral system of the SAR, resolutely implemented the central government’s overall governance power over Hong Kong, and implemented the principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong" to ensure that the governance power of Hong Kong is firmly in the hands of patriotic forces that love Hong Kong.
On May 8, Lee Ka Chiu John waved at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang)
Practice is the best touchstone to test the system. From last year’s Election Committee election and the seventh Legislative Council election to the current Chief Executive election, its successful holding fully demonstrated the advanced nature and superiority of the new electoral system in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, indicating that the new electoral system is a good system that conforms to the principle of "one country, two systems" and the actual situation in Hong Kong. Judging from the social and economic development of Hong Kong in the past year, the new electoral system has remarkable progress and strong vitality, which can ensure social stability, economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood in Hong Kong. The Chief Executive election was conducted in accordance with laws and regulations, fair and just, standardized and orderly, with extensive and in-depth social participation, which fully demonstrated democracy. Lee Ka Chiu John was elected with a high vote, which fully reflected the high recognition and affirmation of Hong Kong society.
However, when the new electoral system in Hong Kong has taken root in an all-round way and the democratic development has been optimized and upgraded, the United States and the West are eager to jump out and criticize and discredit the process and results of this election, which fully exposes their true features of interfering in China’s internal affairs and undermining Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability under various pretexts. Some countries in the United States and the West are full of democratic chaos. Who is qualified to make irresponsible remarks about Hong Kong? I advise you to put away those "routines" and "tricks" as soon as possible.
Hong Kong does not need a Western-style political "house of cards" or an American-style "running for governor". What kind of democratic road Hong Kong takes and what kind of electoral system it implements are purely China’s internal affairs, and no external force has the right to interfere. Any attempt to bosse around, condescending, slandering and slandering Hong Kong’s new electoral system and election results, and interfering with Hong Kong’s democratic development are all overreaching. Any attempt to undermine Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability and curb China’s development will eventually fail.