‘Occupy Central’ Students Now Want to Occupy British Consulate

Posted by on Nov 14, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

Will there be no end to this nonsense!  The students can’t be SO naïve as to believe that in spite of imperial era governor Chris Patten’s recent rants against the HK government, the UK is actually going to jeopardize its economic, financial and trade relations with China to give open support to their erroneous ideas and economy-damaging protests, especially when the Brits had no intention of granting HK citizens the right to vote when they ruled the colony in the first place.   The student protestors, as the Chinese saying goes, “don’t know how high is the sky and how deep is the earth”.

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Activists say they want to show their anger at Britain for not standing up to China over “breaches” of the agreement the two countries made before Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain in 1997, designed to protect Hong Kong’s social systems and way of life.

“We are angry at the way that the British government has for many years denied that China has actually breached the declaration by interfering with Hong Kong politics,” Anna-Kate Choi, the coordinator for the Occupy British Consulate group told AFP.

“They have the responsibility to make sure that the joint declaration has been implemented properly and that democracy and the high degree of autonomy of Hong Kong has been protected,” Choi said.

The group is a new offshoot of the protest movement, Choi added, with around 10 organisers from all walks of life including a secondary school student.

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Britain and China are signatories of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, an agreement that enshrines the “one country, two systems” principle and states that until 2047 “the current social and economic systems in Hong Kong will remain unchanged.”

But activists feel that Britain is turning a blind eye and that China is eroding Hong Kong’s freedoms.

Posters for the British consulate occupation bear the slogan: “China breaches the joint declaration, UK government respond now” with the pro-democracy movement’s umbrella symbol emblazoned with the British flag.

 – AFP