In September 2002, the Hong Kong government promoted the disputed legislation proposal to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law. This proposal seems to be submitted under direct pressure from the Jiang Zemin regime. The legislation as proposed is much severer and far harsher than the request in the Basic Law. Once this proposal has been implemented, the HK government will have to ban any organisations that are identified as a threat to national security by the central government. This will affect all of the dissident organisations including human right organisations, democratic organisations or personages, Catholicism, and Falun Gong practitioners. It is definitely a violation to the principle of the “one country two systems” and the autonomous nature of Hong Kong. This legislation also applies severe restrictions to Hong Kong’s media in regards to publishing any news concerning the central authority of Beijing.
The followings are the questions asked by Olivier Dupuis MEP to the European Commission:
How much information has the Commission obtained about this matter?
What approaches has the Commission adopted or is going to adopt to prevent the Hong Kong government from legislating on Article 23 of the Basic Law?
Specifically speaking, what steps has the Commission already taken or prepared to take to urge the Hong Kong government to maintain the “one country two systems” policy?
When China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the Chinese government promised to maintain the “one country two systems” unchanged for 50 years in Hong Kong, and also promised to respect the basic human rights, especially to respect the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and belief, freedom of assembly, and freedom of peace demonstration.
Translated from Chinese at
http://www.yuanming.net/articles/200212/14842.html
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