Dramatiken i Hong Kong

I skuggan av större och mer dramatiska konflikter pågår det i Hong Kong en intressant kamp för demokrati. När Kina övertog den forna brittiska kolonin utlovades att Hong Kong skulle få bibehålla sin särart. Kina skulle vara ett land (med Hong Kong) men med två system (dvs Hong Kongs egenart med rättsstat och stegvis väg mot demokrati) skulle bestå.

Men nu tycks regimen i den kinesiska huvudstaden ha tänkt om. En stat och ett system, är paraollen nu.

Regimen ska nu offentliggöra det regelverk som ska gälla för valet 2017 av Hong Kongs nya ledning. Pro-demokratiaktivister har arrangerat stora demonstrationer. Anson Chan, som var den högsta tjänstemannan i Hong Kong under den brittiska eran, är en av ledarna i arbetet att bibehålla det som utlovades vid överlämnandet.

I en intervju i Quartz ger hon sin syn på vad som står på spel:

We see a steady chipping away of our freedoms. The main concern now is China’s commitment toward faithfully implementing the basic law in terms of of maintaining “one country, two systems.” There’s a feeling that if we have the right to elect our own chief executive instead of having one thrust upon us by Beijing, then we’re in a position to do something if the chief executive doesn’t turn out to be fulfilling his duties in the eyes of the community.

Hong Kong has always been through difficult spots. Every 10 years Hong Kong has gone through one trauma after another: bank runs, the 1967 riots, SARS in 2003, the Asian Financial Crisis, and then the 2008 financial crisis, but we’ve come through all these and every time we’ve emerged in some ways stronger, but all that is because you have “one country two systems.

Hon pekar på korruptionen i Kina:

We all know endemic corruption is so deep-rooted in China. It is difficult to stamp out endemic corruption unless you set up the necessary institutional underpinnings. You can
from time to time catch even big flies, and you can catch certainly all the small fishes, but you are never going to deal effectively with stamping out endemic corruption until you acknowledge that fact. But once you concede you need an independent judiciary, a clean civil service, you are actually looking at the demise of the one party rule, and that is not something Beijing is prepared to tolerate

 Why did Deng Craft one country two systems? He saw for himself how Hong Kong had developed as a result of the rule of law, rights and freedom, transparency, and he said
that’s the best model not only for ensuring Hong Kong’s stability but to enable Hong Kong to play a very unique role in helping China open up, and move towards market economy. Maybe he did not envision so much political reform, but he definitely had the vision that in these 50 years, China itself would evolve, change and perhaps move a bit closer to the
Hong Kong system. But we are seeing [that] China has changed and in some ways changed for the better, but Hong Kong is leveling down.

I en tid då även politiska ledare inom EU talar om att säga farväl till den liberala demokratin ser det kanske dystert ut för demokratikampen i Hong Kong ?!