{"id":45258,"date":"2015-02-05T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45258 "},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T20:59:00","slug":"45258-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45258","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Official Warns Hong Kong Activists Not to Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>February 05, 2015 7:34 AM<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>HONG KONG&#8212;China&#8217;s top official in Hong Kong vowed the central government will not allow any rejection of its authority as pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong plan to continue their campaign for free and direct elections of the city&#8217;s leader.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zhang Xiaoming, head of China&#8217;s liaison office warned protesters not to continue their campaign for democracy during a speech at a gathering which included Hong Kong&#8217;s chief executive and representatives from Chinese state-owned firms. About 4,000 people were in attendance.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;&#8220;We could not allow any attempt to reject the central authority&#8217;s jurisdiction over Hong Kong under the pretext of a high degree of autonomy, to advocate Hong Kong independence, or even to overtly confront with the central government through illegal ways,&#8221; Zhang said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/6\/2015250D1DD501-D51E-4BE1-BBFC-96E84E8BF8E0_w268.jpg\" alt=\"2015250D1DD501-D51E-4BE1-BBFC-96E84E8BF8E0_w268.jpg (268&#215;175)\" \/><\/div><div>FILE &#8211; An umbrella, which has become an icon of the protest, reads pro-democracy messages above the student-led protest site in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, Oct. 20, 2014.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Pro-democracy demonstrators camped out for more than two months last year, blocking central parts of the city to protest in favor of direct elections of the city&#8217;s leader.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Beijing has proposed a plan for election reform which would allow voters to choose from a pool of two or three candidates chosen by a committee heavily backed by Communist Party loyalists. Activists say they will continue their campaign of civil disobedience to press for greater choice over whom to support in the election.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;At this stage it seems impossible that Beijing would allow Hong Kong to develop a high degree of democracy,&#8221; said Willie Lam, a scholar at the University of Hong Kong. &#8220;So the biggest controversy, that means the electoral mechanism for electing a chief executive in 2017, Beijing has laid down a very conservative mechanism.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zhang also said the central government would focus again on patriotic education so that young people in Hong Kong will understand that &#8220;the destiny and future of Hong Kong are closely connected to those of the motherland.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Last month Hong Kong started a student cadet group that will wear Chinese military uniforms and practice Chinese army drills. Lam says it is likely that Beijing will also introduce new legislation targeting Hong Kong demonstrators.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible that Beijing will introduce so-called state security legislation on issues like sedition and other acts which Beijing consider to be threatening to state security,&#8221; said Lam.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/chinese-official-warns-hong-kong-activists-against-protesting\/2629988.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&quot;We could not allow any attempt to reject the central authority&#39;s jurisdiction over Hong Kong under the pretext of a high degree of autonomy, to advocate Hong Kong independence, or even to overtly confront with the central government through illegal ways,&quot; Zhang said.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}