The @nytopinion ran an op-ed by pro-#Beijing #HongKong legislator Regina Ip on #China's National Day, in which she argued that the #NSL has helped to reduce the scale and frequency of ant-government protests in #HK.
nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opi…
"Several prominent democracy advocates have since announced their retirement from politics, disbanded their parties or fled the city. The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong’s freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city...
... by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland."
"At the same time, the democratic movement in Hong Kong is in great danger of being hijacked by its more radical faction. In mid-July, ahead of the election for the Legislative Council (LegCo) scheduled for early September,...
... the pro-democracy camp held an informal primary to gauge the public’s support for its various candidates. The ones who advocated uncompromising positions or blanket opposition to the government scored well."
"Yet deferring the election, and for a full year, simply was a sound decision.Another wave of coronavirus infections (which would be Hong Kong’s fourth) could strike later this fall or in the winter, and, say, a six-month deferral might have required another six months’ delay...
... — a move that would confuse the public and no doubt be decried as a lack of foresight on the Hong Kong government’s part."
Basically, the whole piece is Regina Ip defending #HongKong government's policies on letting #Beijing introduce the #NSL, the government's decision to postpone the Legco election, the decision to launch mass-testing as "a responsible act."
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