China: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protesters a ‘Virus’ That ‘Must Be Eliminated’

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"China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political office in Hong Kong, on Wednesday condemned pro-democracy demonstrators as a “political virus” that “must be eliminated” before Hong Kong can return to prosperity.

As reported by the UK Guardian, the HKMAO made no distinction between law-abiding critics of the Beijing-aligned government and “black-clad rioters,” lumping them together as a “recklessly demented force” threatening the One Country, Two Systems arrangement that allows Hong Kong to retain a shred of autonomy as a CCP possession:

It said that while many Hong Kongers had sympathy and understanding for them, “the more sympathisers the tyrants have, the greater price Hong Kong will pay.”

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“It can be said the forces of black violence are destroying the foundation of Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability,” the statement said.

It said the central government had responsibility for safeguarding national security and the constitutional order in Hong Kong, and called for the urgent implementation of long-shelved national security laws.

The Guardian noted that the protests have resumed, although on a far smaller scale than the gigantic demonstrations that convulsed Hong Kong for much of last year. The HKMAO accused the small groups of protesters who have resumed their activities of violating coronavirus safety rules and seeking to resume “street warfare.”

The protest movement sees Beijing’s talk of eradicating them like a virus as more than just political hyperbole that exploits pandemic anxiety. Observers quoted by the Guardian noted that the exact same “virus that must be eradicated” line was employed by the CCP against the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province right before they were herded into gigantic concentration camps, tortured, brainwashed, and sold off as slave labor."

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