Large-scale riots broke out in the United States. The mainstream Chinese media treated it like treasure. They made the death of the African-American man and all those related news their headlines. The CCP propaganda agencies were overjoyed by the street riots in the U.S. as they compare the riots with the movement in Hong Kong last year. Carrie Lam also followed closely. Yesterday, she pointed out that the U.S. has double standards while treating the domestic riots that threaten national security, and the riots in Hong Kong.

Indeed, the U.S. government and media have never raised this issue to the national security level. They only regarded that as issues related to public order and splitting of social ideology. However, China treated internal protests in Hong Kong as matters related to national security. The purpose is obvious: an excuse to fully control the people of Hong Kong.

The four police officers involved in the death of the African-American man, George Floyd, were immediately dismissed. The police officer who knelt on the victim’s neck was charged with third-degree murder. Last month in Hong Kong, an expatriate was suspected of criminal damage. A police officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and the expatriate died a day later, after being sent to the hospital. Till now, the police have not yet announced the cause of death and the identity of the man. The name of the police officer involved was not disclosed, not to mention if he would be held accountable. This is the difference between the police in the U.S. and in Hong Kong.

The demonstrations in the U.S. started peacefully. Police officers in some parts of the U.S. even walked with the protesters and supported their pursuit of justice. But soon, peaceful protests were hijacked by the extreme left organisation "ANTIFA" (Anti-Fascist). Under the name of "Anti-Fascism" and "Anti-Race Discrimination," this organisation achieved its political goals through damaging of public property, looting of shops, using of physical violence and harassing the ultra-right-wing people they identified. What are their political goals? It is anti-capitalism, supporting communism and socialism.

Who were the "thugs" in Hong Kong's movement last year? Were they the young people who protect passers-by and who never steal? Or was it the armed riot police who grabbed a drink in the convenience store and said ‘pay later’? Who is more like "ANTIFA"? The citizens who believe in the inherent values of Hong Kong, or the China and Hong Kong Communists?

In Hong Kong, the police started using excessive violence at the beginning of the peaceful anti-extradition bill protests on 6.9 and 6.12 last year. And the riots in the U.S. were evolved from demonstration due to the inaction of the police.When things became ugly and the mobs involved in robbery and burning down the buildings, the Minneapolis police ignored it. The robbery and the riot then spread to the state capital of St. Paul. The police reported that someone fired his gun but no casualty was caused and thus they took no action. The most shocking thing is that the rioters took over the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd Precinct building and set it on fire. The police officers received orders to retreat from their headquarters. Such police inaction is probably related to the fact that this state is governed by the Democratic Party, and that "political correctness" prevails, and it has always been proclaimed that "the lives of black people are also lives." Contrary to the black people's civil rights movement in the 1960s, the main members of the "ANTIFA" were white.

A KOL scholar, Wen Zhao, concluded: ‘There are mobs on both the East and the West, but the mobs on the East wear police uniforms, while those on the West side did not’; ‘the police officers in the East have absolute immunity. Whatever they do , they will not be investigated. The police officers in the West do not have such protection’. And after social unrest, people in the U.S. will reflect on the issue, yet the CCP will never reflect themselves because of the unrest in Hong Kong. That is the difference between a Totalitarian country and a democratic country.

(Lee Yee, a prominent political commentator in Hong Kong who embarked on a career of writing and subediting in 1956, has been contributing unremittingly political commentaries to the local press.)

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