Chapter 647: Raising a thief

Yang Xing explained his thoughts in detail to Bao Haisheng. During this term, Bao Haisheng should pay special attention to compassion with the people's livelihood. Even if he cannot quickly take measures to improve people's livelihood, he should at least often go out of the office and go to the grassroots to show his kindness to the people. Because Bao Haisheng was born into a wealthy family, he did not have enough experience with the poor residents in Hong Kong, which created a ideological gap.

During his first term, Bao Haisheng had close contact with super rich people like Yang Xing for economic reasons. Many policies he introduced were attacked to focus on the interests of a small group of rich people, but did not take care of the general public. He wanted to restore his image, go out for a walk more, and learn from the basic skills of Taiwanese Japanese politicians shaking hands a thousand times in a day, and his hands were swollen and smiling.

Bao Haisheng was enlightened when he heard this. It was relatively easy for him to run for the Chief Executive twice, so he naturally forgot the traditional magic weapon of Western politics - to personally vote. Now, when Yang Xing mentioned it, he understood that Hong Kong implemented one country, two systems, and the current political system still needs to learn from the Western democracy. He wanted to nod and agree with Yang Xing's statement, and immediately asked his assistant to arrange his own people-friendly activities, but suddenly he thought of another thing and said that he would continue to ask Yang Xing.

He asked his entourage to leave and talked to Yang Xing alone: ​​"But there is a trouble now. You know that the government is discussing the establishment of the National Security Law. Now you ask me to lower my attitude and be friendly to the people. Will the opposition who already opposes the bill mistakenly think that my attitude is weak and becomes even more rampant? This bill is related to the Basic Law and cannot be misunderstood!"

After he said this, Yang Xing remembered that he saw in a Hong Kong newspaper in his previous life that in order to pass the National Security Law, Hong Kong's political arena caused a lot of turmoil. Earlier this year, the SAR government issued a consultative document, proposing to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law, and legislation prohibiting any crimes involving national security, such as treason, separatist acts, incitement to incite, subversion of state and stealing state secrets.

This sounds natural because of the misinterpretation of many people who are interested, many places in the National Security Law have caused concerns among citizens, fearing that they will be convicted of words and convicted of being informed of the situation, which will affect freedom of speech, the protection of freedom of the press, and the exploitation of the "rights" that citizens should have, which has aroused strong opposition from public opinion. Finally, it has caused a total outbreak of the greatest dissatisfaction with the government since the transfer of Hong Kong's autonomy, leading to a major incident in which more than 500,000 people took to the streets to demonstrate.

Finally, when the Legislative Council rejected the case, the Hong Kong government had no choice but to postpone the case. Later, when it was judged that it was impossible to force the legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law, Bao Haisheng announced the withdrawal of the National Security (Legislative Articles) Bill. This major failure was also one of the main fuses that led to his resignation in office two years later.

After staying in Hong Kong for so long, Yang Xing also realized that the concepts of love for Hong Kong and patriotism among the Hong Kong citizens are not necessarily the same. Hong Kong has received a century-old colonial education in the UK, and in many cases, politically involuntarily will be influenced by the so-called human rights and freedom advocated by the West. The basic law requires many normal requirements to comply with the Chinese Constitution, strengthen national education, promote patriotism, and prohibit treason and rebellion, which are so rebellious that it violates their human rights such as freedom of speech, causing many storms that the mainland people think are very absurd.

But this opposition of public opinion cannot be underestimated. In recent legislative elections, the democrats who have always liked to oppose the Hong Kong government and the central government have risen and have won many seats. They learn from the purely "opposing for opposition" practice of Western politicians, always act hostile to the administrative measures of the Hong Kong government, and often pick on them. They also encourage the masses to march on the streets under the banner of democracy. The Hong Kong government is helpless against them. Just now, Yang Xing proposed to ask Bao Haisheng to pay attention to people's livelihood, and also wanted to win over the public class more and fight against their every sensational and delusional approach.

Yang Xing scratched his head. This was not easy to deal with. Although he was rich all over the world, he could not reverse the value orientation of the entire Hong Kong people. In the past, the way money was opened up was not feasible here. Originally, this seemed to be the job of the Chief Executive Bao Da. So he had to reluctantly make it difficult for him to carefully read the draft national security legislation on Article 23 of the Basic Law brought by Bao Haisheng. After reading it for a while, he suddenly saw the measures in the draft National Security Law on how to deal with major public security and counter-terrorism from a large number of legal terms, and his eyes lit up.

He casually opened a device on the table that looked like a mobile phone. The various communication tools Bao Haisheng carried with him immediately made a harsh electronic noise. Yang Xing asked him to remove the battery of the mobile phone and said solemnly: "This is an electronic interference device I developed myself. It can be guaranteed to resist any eavesdropping within at least half an hour. Now what I say comes from my mouth and only enters your ears. No third person knows it. I will not admit that I have said such words afterwards. This time I want to do some wrong ways to ensure that this bill passes. To put it short, you have heard of the allusion of raising thieves and the Patriot Act of the United States."

Bao Haisheng rarely saw Yang Xing so serious, and he also cheered up his spirit and thought carefully about Yang Xing's words. After a while, he nodded thoughtfully and understood Yang Xing's meaning. He understood that Wu Sangui's life-saving weapon was the king in Yunnan, and bandits in his jurisdiction repeatedly attacked him. With the military strength of the Qing Dynasty entering the pass, he could only see that he had become a country there. Later, he even caused chaos due to the reduction of the vassal state. The magic weapon of Wu Sangui's military group to protect his life was this trick to raise the thief.

As for the Patriot Act, the highly controversial law, which has hit the human rights fighters in the United States and the world, on October 26, 2001, the US Congress quickly passed the bill after the 911 terrorist attack. The bill greatly expanded the authority of US law enforcement agencies with the goal of preventing terrorism. According to the content of the bill, law enforcement agencies have the right to search for telephone, email, medical, financial and other types of records.

The CIA and other units that have reduced restrictions on domestic foreign intelligence units in the United States and have not been allowed to conduct domestic espionage activities can finally intervene in domestic affairs. The bill also expanded the authority of the US Treasury Secretary to facilitate his control and management of financial circulation activities, especially for financial activities related to foreigners or political entities; it also strengthened the power of law enforcement and immigration management units to reside and deport foreigners suspected of terrorism. There is only one essence of the bill, which is to strengthen surveillance in the United States.

The most important point of this bill is that it greatly extends the definition of terrorism, including domestic separatist forces and anti-political organizations, which have been labeled as terrorism, thus expanding the scope of crackdowns by law enforcement agencies. Many people inexplicably put on the blacklist of the Ministry of Homeland Security. Bao Haisheng quickly understood what Yang Xing meant, that is, to create a crisis, and then forcibly pass the National Security Law in the name of anti-terrorism, based on the Patriot Act. After all, the leader in human rights activities has done this. Is it correct to copy it in Hong Kong?

But the suggestion on raising thieves is a bit difficult for Bao Haisheng. Apart from emotional factors, Hong Kong is a free port after all, and there is no hatred caused by Western powers to oppress other countries. It is afraid no one believes that Hong Kong is threatened by terror! Yang Xing smiled slightly, thinking that he was in the jungle war in Indonesia, Turkey attacked the Minister of Defense, the US "echelon" and the Bank for International Settlements, and even went to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to steal the secret file of the Soviet Union. Recently, he sent someone in the Infernal Affairs Bureau. He is more like a terror tycoon than Laden, a religious madman, and gives you a small case of damage.

Yang Xing showed a compassionate attitude and said: "The world is very crazy now. On the 2nd of this month, a series of sniper cases occurred near Washington, USA. 10 people died in 13 cases. Finally, two black suspects were found to be killing people without targets, and their son was only 17 years old."

"Immediately afterwards, the nightclub explosion in Bali, Indonesia on the 12th killed more than 200 people, most of which were Western tourists from Australia and other countries. The targets of terrorist attacks were Westerners, but Indonesia still had a fire at the city gate that affected the fish. Hong Kong was not the target to survive? Those opposition groups have been clamoring for political inaction all day long. Now something happened to Indonesia near neighbor, and the political institution has received rumors, and it is okay to strengthen the level of anti-terrorism."

"What's more, a large-scale epidemic will really break out this year and next two years. According to regulations, compulsory isolation should be implemented. It should always be regarded as a major public safety matter. If someone fights compulsory isolation in the name of human rights, is it not right to have the National Security Law to support the government? This reason is open and upright. If the bill can be voted on when the epidemic expands, the possibility of passing it will definitely increase. At that time, the National Education Law, media supervision, parliamentarian codes can be stuffed into it together. Just create some 'terrorist crises', and it can be done by scaring citizens in real or fake."

Bao Haisheng was stunned. He had been with Yang Xing for many years and always thought that Yang Xing was only a genius in terms of economics. However, he thought that he was very good at raising thieves and self-respecting. He actually wanted to treat the epidemic as a helper for the passage of the National Security Law. He could almost see the devil's tail behind Yang Xing's butt shaking.

But putting aside feelings, reason tells him that Yang Xing's method did work quickly, and sometimes manipulating the fear of the people is also an indispensable means in political struggles. During World War II, the United States was seriously isolated and reluctant to participate in the war. However, as soon as the Pearl Harbor incident broke out, the US state machine started to operate at high speed. As soon as the "911" attack occurred, the US Congress, which has always been dragging on infighting, was surprising to the rapid response. So when Yang Xing approached his ear and continued to state his "self-respect for thieves", he did not avoid it.
Chapter completed!