LettersNational security law: if Hongkongers are worried, they should walk the talk

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A view of the Hong Kong Island skyline from across Victoria Harbour at dusk on June 29. The national security law came into force at 11pm the following day. Photo: Reuters

Published: 6:45am, 27 Jul 2020Updated: 6:45am, 27 Jul 2020

Recently, there have been quite a lot of comments from Post readers who say they are deeply troubled and extremely afraid of the new national security law that has taken effect in Hong Kong.

Some of them wrote to thank the British government for giving British National (Overseas) passport holders a path to citizenship and to describe how dangerous Hong Kong is. We even see letters from Taiwan on how the island might attract Hongkongers.

Scaremongering among Post readers is meaningless. What these correspondents need to do is not to write to the Post to say how worried they are. Instead, they should walk the talk, as moaning and groaning in Hong Kong surely would not help them alleviate their fear, paranoia and anxiety.

You can say that the Communist Party is dictatorial, but it is not the same party that chairman Mao Zedong led. It is now realistic rather than idealistic. The question of whether it wants to ruin Hong Kong is a no-brainer. It aims to help Hong Kong get past the social unrest and through the pandemic economically.

If the situation in Hong Kong worsens with the implementation of the national security law, the West will have a lot of “excuses” to attack the party. If that is not the case, the party can then say how wrong the West is.

Apparently, the West wants to see the former instead of the latter politically.