Hong Kong Makes Public Broadcaster Air Propaganda ‘Embracing’ China Takeover by FRANCES MARTEL for Breitbart
Hong Kong’s public broadcaster, RTHK, will soon air a 20-episode news show on China’s decision to pass a law that allows Communist Party agents to arrest those who threaten Beijing, the network revealed on Thursday, after a “government-appointed board of advisers” urged the network to “embrace” the legislation.
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the communist-controlled lawmaking body in Beijing, passed a law allowing China to protect its “national security” in Hong Kong. Anyone accused of seeking independence or secession, or deemed a threat to the Communist Party in any way, will now face criminal consequences at the hands of the Party. The law effectively ends autonomy in Hong Kong, which China agreed to keep in place when it returned to Beijing’s sovereignty in 1997.
Many prominent members of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement have condemned the law, arguing that it breaches the “One Country, Two Systems” policy by allowing Chinese agents to enforce Chinese laws rather than autonomous Hong Kong laws on freedom of expression and assembly. Many fear they could be arrested and disappeared into China’s repressive legal system.
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The law will go into effect after it is written. The NPC typically passes laws without having a text of the law, working on a “draft” that is later revised by Party officials. Supporters claim that Hong Kong’s local government, by not passing laws against public criticisms of China, had abandoned its responsibility to safeguard the national security of China, allowing for an opening to pass this law.
The plan to air a special on the national security law arose from the first meeting of a new “working group” to steer content at RTHK, the network itself detailed in a report.
“We are [a] public broadcaster. It says clearly in our mission and purpose that our job is to produce programmes to let the citizens understand ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and the actual implementation,” Eugene Chan, one of the members of RTHK’s board of advisers, reportedly said at the meeting. Chan insisted that the network must strive to ensure that citizens have a “correct understanding” of the “national security” law, as China would prefer it.”
