Beijing wants to strengthen grip on Hong Kong

to expand the Central Committee of the Communist party's decision to conclude his four-day plenary session on Thursday in Beijing, in Hong Kong, "the legal system and the enforcement mechanisms for the protection of national security".

The Autonomous Chinese special administrative region had ruled "strictly" according to the law, as well as prosperity and stability in the long term, it said. What exactly will be done, not emerged from the Communiqué but.

The fourth plenary meeting of the roughly 370 members and candidates of the Central Committee was the most important party meeting in 20 months and was held behind closed doors at a Hotel in Beijing.

the Meeting of the leadership elite was unusually long been moved, what can remain, speculation about possible resistance to the omnipotence of state and party chief Xi Jinping triggered, the life after changes to the Constitution in office.

The Communiqué called for, that the people and the party "are still flocking closely around the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping in the middle". In a remarkable speech, which was already a year old, but only shortly before the plenary session of the leading party magazine "Qiushi" published had been warned Xi Jinping in front of disunity and weak leadership.

warning before loss of Central authority

"From ancient times to the present day, whenever a great Power collapsed or fell into disrepair, was the common reason of the loss of Central authority," said the party leader. "The way I see it, we can only be beaten by ourselves. ... Strife that emanates from the Interior of the family, must be avoided."

In the final Declaration, reference was made to a "complicated situation, with growing risks at home and abroad". The trade war with the United States was not mentioned. It was on the one hand, reiterates that China should let the market in the allocation of resources to a "decisive role", on the other hand, would emphasize that the role of government "must be played".

In the new Situation should be more effective and better to be with the "internal contradictions in the people" deal. Control and public safety should be strengthened, it said further. The people's liberation army had to be expanded to "armed forces of world-class" and modernized. The "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan is. Beijing considers the democratic island as part of the people's Republic, though she has never heard of it.

protests to Halloween

In Hong Kong, it came on Thursday on the occasion of the Halloween Festival to new protests, the prohibition against the goddamn mask and against police brutality were. The police used again tear gas.

for months the people of Hong Kong are demonstrating against their own government and the growing influence of the Beijing leadership to the former British crown colony. Since the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong in accordance with the principle of "one country, two systems" autonomously as its own territory. The seven million Hong Kong under China's sovereignty, enjoy, but, unlike the people of the Communist people's Republic of – more rights, such as freedom of expression and freedom of Assembly, to which they now fear.

Created: 31.10.2019, 21:09 PM