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Xi ‘extremely foolish’ to push through Hong Kong national security law, says former Communist Party professor

蘋果日報 2020/06/05 12:00


A former professor at a top training institute of the Chinese Communist Party has slammed President Xi Jinping’s forceful push of national security law in Hong Kong as “extremely foolish”, making the party “the enemy of human civilization”, according to a speech shared by a Chinese dissident.
Chinese dissident Zhao Changqing, who now lives in the United States, shared on his Twitter on May 31 a speech at a private meeting, allegedly made by Cai Xia, a former professor at Central Party School. The transcript of the speech noted that Cai has moved to New York.
In the speech, Cai said China had the sovereignty of Hong Kong, but the governing rights belonged to the Hong Kong people. Hong Kong’s international status was determined by other countries, she added.
"The Chinese Community Party is now destroying Hong Kong’s free trade port status and its status as one of the three international financial centers. What does it mean? It means the Chinese Community Party is challenging the whole world,” she said in the speech.
Cai said former Chinese leaders such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping refrained from trying to change Hong Kong’s status because they did not want to challenge the order of human civilization.
"But this extremely foolish Xi believes that Hong Kong's sovereignty belongs to China, so he can do whatever he likes for Hong Kong," Cai said. "On the surface, the Chinese Communist Party is threatening the freedom and rights of the Hong Kong people, but in fact it is threatening world order and the values of human civilization.”
"The Chinese Communist Party is making itself an enemy of the whole world, especially the enemy of human civilization," she added.
Before China voted to pass the national security law bill for Hong Kong, Cai was one of 50 intellectuals who signed a petition to urge China to uphold freedom of expression enshrined in the country’s constitution.
In 2016, Cai publicly voiced support for property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, saying that he had the right to criticise Beijing’s policies as stated in the party’s constitution and regulations.
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