The despots in Hong Kong are upset. Agnes Chow lied to them. Lied!
The Associated Press relates the angry disillusionment of the gang running Hong Kong at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party, which has virtually completed its quarter-century effort to crush political freedom on the island.
Hong Kong’s officials trusted Chow (shown above) to risk her liberty freely. She betrayed that trust. Well, if so, so what?
Pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, who left Hong Kong for Canada and doesn’t plan to return to fulfill her bail conditions, said Thursday she still feels under the watch of the Chinese territory’s police after moving to Toronto….
The intimidation of Hong Kong dissidents like Chow reflects the severe erosion of the freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to China in 1997. But both the Beijing and Hong Kong governments have hailed the security law, saying it brought back stability to the city.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong leader John Lee hit out at Chow’s decision to not return to Hong Kong to meet her bail conditions. He called Chow a “liar” and said attempts by police to offer her lenient treatment eventually led to them being deceived. Chow will be pursued for life unless she turns herself in, he said.
The BBC reports that Chow almost did return to Hong Kong. She bought a plane ticket but changed her mind because “I did not want to risk getting arrested again. I did not want to be sent to China again.” The Hong Kong authorities had allowed her to study in Canada on the condition that she go back to Hong Kong during school breaks to check in with the police there.
Anybody is morally entitled to lie or renege on an agreement to preserve his freedom from tyrants. Chow should not return to Hong Kong no matter how many times CCP lackey Lee, who habitually lies in the service of oppression, calls her a liar.
Also see:
BIZ: Agnes Chow Documentary (2017)
“Born December 1996, the year Hong Kong was returned to China from the UK, Agnes was an ordinary person, interested in Japanese animation and pop groups like other Hong Kong youth. But she’s also one of the student leaders of the democratic Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014. You will see that as Agnes continues her participation in it, she faces immense pressure and repeated setbacks, but still fights in hopes of overcoming a powerful opposing force that’s preventing Hong Kong’s right to vote.”
