Spoiler: The Chinese communist regime has done what was expected. The security law which was designed to crush all opposition and human rights activists in Hong Kong, has been introduced. Soon to follow are mass arrests, torture, and murder according to communist traditions.

Within hours after the law entered into force, a man holding a flag with the text “Independence for Hong Kong” was arrested. He violated the law which makes it illegal to demand independence for Hong Kong from Communist China. Later, some 30 activists were arrested, and others were attacked by the police forces with water cannons.

As I briefly wrote in this post, the new law makes “crimes” of subversion, terrorism and co-operation with foreigners punishable by a minimum sentence of three years. But previous experience of the Chinese “judicial” system tells us that maximum punishment of life sentences are more likely. To make sure that the Hong Kong authorities implement in a satisfactorily way, Beijing has set up a security office in Hong Kong. The office is staffed with communist China’s own people who are not accountable to Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. That means that they can carry out any illegal acts Beijing deems necessary.

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News from China and Hong Kong get worse by the day. Sometimes borderline absurd, as when we heard about the National Anthem Bill.  a new law that makes it a crime to insult China’s national anthem. Last year’s Extradition Bill was suspended after massive demonstrations.

But the Communist regime has made it clear that does not intend to respect the “One country, two systems” that was agreed between UK and China in 1984 when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed. Therefore, they have now come up with the new Security Law, which makes is intended to criminalise protests and opposition and stamp democracy activists as terrorists.

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Spoiler: There are two China. One of the countries is a brutal communist regime. Communist China oppresses its own people, kidnaps other countries’ citizens, occupies Tibet, annexes islands in the South China Sea, ignores international law, uses its firms to spy for the state, pushes indebted countries to support its foreign policies, abuses its position in the UN, tries to cover-up its denial about Covid-19 and attacks those who expose it. 

The other country is democratic. Its citizens not only enjoy prosperity but also civil rights. Taiwan is under constant attack from communist China. Communist China is recognised by most countries and have formal diplomatic relations with them. Taiwan is only recognised by a few countries. This is hypocrisy and it is time to do something about it. 

China and Taiwan received a lot of attention during the Covid-19 outbreak. The Chinese regime initially put the lid on the outbreak. This behaviour has meant that the pandemic has had much larger consequences than if China had been transparent and alerted the WHO. The Taiwanese government and authorities acted immediately upon acquired information about the transmission of Covid-19 inside of China. Their warnings to the WHO were however neglected. This is a consequence of China’s aggressive policy which ultimately aims at occupying Taiwan and integrate it with the rest of the dictatorship.

China and Taiwan have de facto been separate countries since 1949. From the beginning, living standards and health conditions developed much better in Taiwan than in China. Chinese development did not accelerate until after Mao’s death which allowed the new regime to introduce market economy reforms. The Tiananmen Square Massacre made it clear for the world that the communist regime was not interested in human rights in any other way than crushing them with tanks, guns, and concentration camps.

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