My Take | Anson Chan’s US visit highlights hypocrisy of localists
- They back the former chief secretary on her mission to encourage Americans to interfere in Hong Kong, but slam the Taiwanese mayor who spoke to mainland officials on trips to the city and Macau
Our localist politicians got all hot and bothered when a popular mayor from Taiwan visited Hong Kong and Macau and met mainland officials. They even issued statements to denounce the meetings.
But for them, it’s par for the course for our former chief secretary, Anson Chan Fang On-sang, who is more enamoured of British colonialism than the Brits themselves, to fly off on one of her periodic pilgrimages to Washington to encourage Americans to interfere in Hong Kong.
Most of them are secretly jealous that they weren’t invited to sit at the feet of their American masters.
Too bad! You need the stature of someone like Chan and Martin Lee Chu-ming, or at least the name recognition of Joshua Wong Chi-fung to get a direct pat on the head in the White House.
Chan urged Washington to oppose the Hong Kong government’s proposal to allow the transfer of fugitives to the mainland, “before it is too late”. Actually, the rendition plan involves not just the mainland, but Macau and Taiwan as well.
Chan was voicing her warning at, of all places, the Heritage Foundation, an extremist Republican outfit.