Why the new brutal law that China has passed for Hong Kong is dangerous for the whole world
China is a permanent obstacle and threat to any orderly international order
Twenty years ago, the world was constantly debating that the time of Chinese global domination was coming. But China, because of its democratic deficit and the impossibility of real modernization, will never be able to become a world leader;
China passed the National Security Law for Hong Kong on June 30. The National Security Act in Hong Kong was passed legally. Namely, when Hong Kong was returned to China from British sovereignty in 1997, in an otherwise very extensive act on Hong Kong autonomy, Beijing was given the opportunity to pass certain laws for Hong Kong.
China has long insisted that Hong Kong itself pass the National Security Act, which the Hong Kong authorities could not, because the Hong Kong population does not want to reduce its rights in favor of Beijing. After all, we have been watching and reading reports of anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong for years. Chinese President Xi has finally decided to pass the National Security Act, to prevent future protests.
THE BRUTAL MANIFESTO OF BEIJING'S POLITICAL WILL
The National Security Act, the content of which was not known before its enactment, is a brutal manifesto of Beijing’s political will against Hong Kong citizens. It applies to foreign nationals, if found in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's National Security Act mentions four important crimes: secession from China, subversion against China's central government, terrorist activities, and cooperation with foreign forces to jeopardize national security. All four of these "crimes" can be punishable by life imprisonment.
A FRIGHTENING DEFINITION OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY
It is especially curious, but also frightening for the whole world, that someone who, say in the Croatian or American media, criticizes Chinese politics, and then travels to Hong Kong, can be arrested and convicted under this law. China, therefore, has enacted a law that threatens the entire world.
Another, equally frightening element of the National Security Act is the definition of terrorist activities, which includes street protests. The law, we repeat, was passed to prevent anti-Chinese protests in Hong Kong.
DISCOVERING THE REAL NATURE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
The Hong Kong National Security Act tells us a lot, unfortunately, about the real nature of the Chinese political system and Chinese society. China, as we know, has never been a democracy. China has always been an empire.
For nearly five thousand years, China was sometimes a more, sometimes less brutal feudal empire, only to become a very brutal communist empire in the twentieth century, as it is today. If China were not an empire, it would probably fall apart. Therefore, there will be no establishment of a minimum democratic system in China in the foreseeable future. Which, of course, is a major obstacle to China's modernization.
HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BECOME A WORLD LEADER
Twenty years ago, the world was constantly debating that the time of Chinese global domination was coming. Such theses are argued by the strong Chinese economic and technological growth, the growth of living standards among Chinese citizens, and the strengthening of Chinese military power.
But China, because of its democratic deficit and the impossibility of real modernization, will never be able to become a world leader; .
The impossibility of the communist Chinese empire to grow into a state with at least minimal respect for human, civil and political rights, as well as a constructive player on the world stage, is proof that liberal democracy (which is not even in China), with all its countless flaws, remains the only functioning political system in the world
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