Paradoxical theory of Hong Kong organising U.S. riots (Lee Yee)
Hu Xijin, the Editor-in-Chief of the China state media Global Times, tweeted on Twitter stating his high suspicion of Hong Kong “rioters” infiltrating the United States and organising the riot in U.S..
The speech of this CCP media celebrity, who has the privilege to use Twitter in China, cannot be treated as having “freedom of speech”. This statement led the world, including people in Hong Kong and the U.S. to understand the authenticity of the propaganda of CCP. That also includes claims of having “riots” in Hong Kong, the necessity of Hong Kong national security law, or claims of having over 2 million supporters of the law and all other speeches of government officials from last year. Hu helped people understand the truth behind the words.
Hu said that ‘attacking police stations, smashing shop, blocking roads and breaking public facilities’ are the ‘routines’ of Hong Kong “rioters”, hence Hong Kong ‘rioters’ are the ‘mastermind’ of the violent protests across the U.S.. But he did not mention that those violent protesters in the U.S. robbed shops and did harm to innocent citizens during the protest, and that all these never happened in the Hong Kong protests. Hong Kong protesters destroyed only targeted facilities without hurting people and robbing shops. Signs saying “protect books, no damage”, “we are not thieves, we don’t take without permission” were put on the library and fridge door on the day of occupying legislative council on 1st July.
The death of an African-American man caused by police officers triggered a wave of demonstrations in the U.S.. The four police officers involved in the incident were immediately demised, at least two of them may file a lawsuit. Chauvin, the police officer who kneeled on the victim’s neck was soon arrested and charged for third-degree murder on 29th May.
Since last year in Hong Kong, countless acts of police brutality were clearly seen in live footage, but none of the officers were being charged or investigated. The mysterious deaths of Chan Yin-lam and Chow Tsz-lok , and over 2500 ‘dead body found’ cases were all concluded to be unsuspicious. Police brutality in Hong Kong and the U.S. are treated very differently, thus no justified comparison could be made.
The body of George Floyd, the African-American man killed by the police, was sent to a medical institution for autopsy. The autopsy results stated that the death of Floyd was not caused by suffocation, and that the police officer did not break his neck. His death was caused by other conditions triggered by the violent arrest. Pathological report showed that drug overdose caused his death. His family was unconvinced by the official pathological report so they employed other forensic institutions for a second autopsy. In the U.S., forensic is an independent third-party organisation, if the pathological results from the prosecutor and defendant are different, another autopsy will be conducted by an authorised institution recognised by both parties. In Hong Kong, however, no pathological results were released for the 2500 ‘dead body found’ cases. To close the cases, the police only needed to state that those cases were “unsuspicious”. Suspected death due to police brutality are treated very differently in the two places.
An online post from mainland China stated that Chinese media gloat over the seriousness of racial discrimination in the U.S. and how terrible the violent demonstration in the U.S. is. The author is probably someone who lives in the U.S. and follows closely to the social network of mainland China. The passage is persuasive. His post concerning the truth of the death of the African-American and the worldwide demonstrations was soon censored. Chinese officials want the people to believe only the truth they created – “Hong Kong rioters organised the US riots”.
The truth as claimed by China is always confusing. Chinese officials repeatedly claimed that the Hong Kong riots were organised by the U.S.. And now they claim that Hongkongers are the organisers of the U.S. riots. Is Hong Kong still part of China? And so did China actually organised the U.S. riots? Never mind, because ‘the logic’ and ‘the China logic’ are just too different.
