🔪 Where is Our Murderer? Taiwan is the Victim; Why Oppose the Extradition Bill?
After the Hong Kong person Chan Tong-kai killed his girlfriend Poon Hiu-wing on Taiwan Island, he abandoned the body and fled back to Hong Kong. Given that there is no fugitive extradition treaty between the two places, the Hong Kong government can only temporarily detain Chan Tong-kai for money laundering.
Starting with this murder case, the Hong Kong government intended to enact the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance so that those who commit heinous crimes can be sent to the judicial organs of the Republic of China (Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu) through mutual legal assistance. Later, the CCP took advantage of the trend to request the inclusion of the People’s Republic of China (mainland), Macau, and other places.
As a result, some Hong Kong people believe that they can cooperate in judicial extradition with any country, except they don’t want to with the mainland and Macau (it’s hard to say if that includes Taiwan). Therefore, they deliberately stigmatized the “Fugitive Offenders Ordinance” as the “Extradition to China Bill” and launched this anti-extradition protest.
Editor’s Note: The deliberate naming as the “Extradition to China (Sent to China) Bill” is likely an argumentative marketing tactic learned from the designers of the “Black Box Service Trade” in the Sunflower Movement. As long as it is directly transformed into the “Extradition to Death (Sent to Death) Bill” (both pronounced ‘Song Zhong’ in Chinese), a simple malicious label can achieve the purpose: Driving more fools.
What puzzles me is that obviously Taiwan is the victim (the Hong Kong government currently has no extradition treaty to extradite the murderer to our country), yet a few Taiwanese and Hong Kong people are opposing the extradition bill in concert.
🚨 Blind Spots in Hong Kong Law and Questions on Judicial Credibility
The reality is that under Hong Kong’s current law, if a Hong Kong person kills a Hong Kong person in Taiwan, the mainland, or Macau, it does not constitute any crime in Hong Kong itself.
Current Hong Kong no longer fully applies the British legal system, nor does it apply the judicial system of the People’s Republic of China. As a result, it has become a lonely child loved by neither father nor mother, or a dangerous child who is fine no matter where he kills people.
The Fugitive Offenders Ordinance intended by the Hong Kong government is essentially transferring the review right of the “Legislative Council” to the courts for independent trial. This originally well-intentioned reform led Hong Kong people to believe that the government was forced by the Communist Party into the amendment. Can it be that Hong Kong people today no longer believe in the fairness of Hong Kong courts?
If you don’t believe in the courts, why not just set fire to the courts?
Previously, the Republic of China, due to the Hung Chung-chiu case, transferred military jurisdiction to the courts for independent trial in non-wartime. As a result, a similar judicial system reform could not work in Hong Kong, making me feel that after the Kowloon Walled City was demolished, its soul was not destroyed but instead swallowed the whole of Hong Kong.
Is it true that as long as 🇨🇳 is involved, some people’s IQ will drop in a straight line?
This behavior is as stupid as some Taiwanese people insisting on characterizing the Taiwanese comfort women forced by Japan during the Japanese occupation period as voluntary just to feel satisfied.
✈️ Who is Manufacturing Panic and Malicious Labels?
For example, some people say that in the future, if you transfer flights in Hong Kong, you will disappear, but now nearly 50% of the people who transfer in Hong Kong are going to the mainland. And more people go to the mainland than to Hong Kong; have these people disappeared?
But under malicious packaging, many people were deliberately misled as if going to Hong Kong were more dangerous than going to the mainland.
Those who say they want to go to Hong Kong and would rather die than go to the mainland are also the minority of minority of minority. I don’t think we need to let Taiwan lose the chance to punish bad people for these few, few, few people full of political purposes or even deliberate agitation to manufacture conflict.
And the reason why I think this Anti-Extradition protest is stupid is that in the draft of the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, it is clearly stipulated that it “only” applies to 37 types of internationally recognized criminal offenses with sentences of over 7 years.
It even clearly stipulates that it does not involve the determination of speech-related acts (including news, speech, academic, and publishing).
In fact, Hong Kong already has a Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, and this time is only an “amended” draft content.
⚖️ Selective Resistance to Restoring Normal Rule of Law
In the amendment, the previous situation where Hong Kong only had extradition treaties for the surrender of fugitives with more than twenty other jurisdictions is expanded to include three new regions: mainland China, Macau, and Taiwan.
In 1996, on the eve of Hong Kong’s return in ‘97, the British government urgently tailored a Fugitive Offenders Ordinance for Hong Kong. At that time, it specifically excluded mainland China and Macau, and collectively excluded the Taiwan region (I guess it was to avoid CCP protests). It is almost exactly the same as the current situation, except the situation is reversed; perhaps it can be said that the normal state of the rule of law is finally being restored.
There is no reason why Hong Kong can send criminals to many countries, but not to the Republic of China 🇹🇼 and the People’s Republic of China 🇨🇳.
Even more, there’s no reason why Hong Kong people committing murder in many countries will be tried, but can get away with it after committing murder and breaking the law in the three places of Taiwan, the mainland, and Macau.
This selective Fugitive Offenders Ordinance makes people mistakenly think that Hong Kong people still think they are living during the British colonial period, having the illusion of being superior to ordinary mainlanders. But I feel it’s more about some rich Hong Kong people who previously made too much illegal profit in the mainland and Taiwan and are afraid of being caught.
🇹🇼 Please Stop Maliciously Belittling My Country, Hong Kong People
Actually, I think Hong Kong people shouldn’t bother protesting the Extradition Bill. In comparison, the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance is only an appetizer to being incorporated into the CCP’s domestic law. You either go for independence or request to join my Republic of China. Otherwise, your judicial system and the CCP’s fully merging will be a matter of ten or twenty years at most. How many times can you protest?
1997 + 50 = 2047
Well, even if you really want to use the Taiwanese people, it’s not impossible, but please, Hong Kong people, hand over the murderer first! You cannot look down on Taiwanese people on one hand and try to use them to strengthen your own momentum on the other. This feels characteristic of the traditional Hong Kong person: “Indifference plus snobbery.”
Hong Kong people, you don’t need to worry about Taiwan because we are the Republic of China 🇹🇼. Please stop saying such malicious and absurd language as “Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow.”
From deliberately excluding Taiwan in 1996 to wanting Taiwanese to back you up now, the sense of glory of Hong Kong people thinking they are superior seems never to have disappeared, and it can even be said that there is a sense of discriminating against Taiwanese people. Just like a line from a Hong Kong movie, “Using Zhong Wuyan when there’s an issue, using Xia Yingchun when there isn’t” (using people only when needed)…
Taiwan Island is a part of the Republic of China and is the territory of a sovereign independent country. The Republic of China has its own independent defense army, its own diplomatic allies, and can also check and balance the three parties of the United States, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China diplomatically. It is even one of the few countries in the world that has had real-deal battles and shed blood and tears with the CCP.
On the other hand, Hong Kong Island has always been just a piece of meat eyed covetously by Japan and Britain. Please, Hong Kong people and a few Taiwanese people, stop deliberately belittling my country. The Republic of China 🇹🇼 is a sovereign independent country.