When it comes to HK, DPP prefers bending justice

On Friday, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government issued a response to media inquiries about their suspension of the Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office (Taiwan) on Tuesday.

In that response, they mentioned that "in recent years, Taiwan has grossly interfered in Hong Kong's affairs on repeated occasions and created irretrievable damage to Hong Kong-Taiwan relations."

The HKSAR government was so polite that it did not specify which political force interfered in its affairs and did the damage. Yes, it was the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that has been ruling Taiwan since 2016, and all the damaging deeds happened during its rule.

In February 2018, after Hong Kong resident Tony Chan Tong-kai killed a female partner in Taiwan and fled back to Hong Kong, the DPP had been preventing him from traveling back to surrender to the judiciary, only to serve its own narrow political interests. That's what prompted the HKSAR government to amend the law and led to riots. Even today Chan has still not received any judicial penalty or trial.

In October 2019, a man from Taiwan robbed a watch shop in Hong Kong and fled back to the island. He was later arrested, but again the Taiwan authorities controlled by the DPP refused to send him back to Hong Kong for a trial.

The two cases are enough to show the DPP's logic: In order to avoid admitting the judicial authority of the People's Republic of China, it ignores all principles. For its own political interests, it bends justice.

For the same reason, the DPP and its controlled Taiwan authorities refused to extend the entrance permits of HKETCO staff in July 2020. It is their selfish deeds that made it impossible for HKETCO to continue its normal business in Taipei, and forced the HKSAR government to suspend its operation.

The political thinking of the DPP is clear: By avoiding contact with the HK judiciary, it hopes to avoid admitting the "one country, two systems" principle that HK follows, so as to further avoid the issue of national reunification.

But their efforts will be only in vain. The reunification of China is an irreversible trend of history, and HKSAR's prosperity after having returned to the motherland shows the "one country, two systems" principle works very well.

Whatever DPP does, the day of reunification will come.