Letters | Hong Kong’s love of Chinese history and culture should be enough for Beijing

Name: ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ enshrined in the party charter
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Published: 3:17pm, 21 Nov 2020Updated: 3:17pm, 21 Nov 2020

I write concerning your article headlined “Beijing says patriotism a legal requirement” (November 18).

The report quotes deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Zhang Xiaoming as being the originator of the headline. Someone needs to point out to Mr Zhang that he should not confuse loyalty to China with loyalty to the Communist Party.

The people of Hong Kong have already shown that they are loyal, law-abiding citizens who deprecate the cynical and illegal seizing of people off the streets. They, in a word, believe in the rule of law.

Unlike the Communist Party, they do not subscribe to foreign ideas (from those like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin), preferring instead to elevate Chinese history and culture. Everywhere in Hong Kong they proclaim their love for Chinese history and culture by way of their museums, uncontaminated by self-serving politics.

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‘Xi Jinping Thought’ enshrined in the party charter

I hope that Mr Zhang can pause in his irrational hectoring and take the time to see how the essence of Chinese history is evident in every flowering Hong Kong enterprise.

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Letters | Hong Kong’s love of Chinese history and culture should be enough for Beijing