Posted on 03/11/2021 7:58:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Many public servants in Hong Kong may be forced to quit their jobs because they refused to pledge an oath of loyalty to the Chinese regime.
All Hong Kong civil servants were required to take an oath or sign a declaration to uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) by the end of February.
On March 8, Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, the secretary for the Civil Service, stated in a press conference that nearly 200 civil servants are about to leave their jobs as they have refused to sign the declaration and pledge of allegiance.
Nip said that civil servants must know that “being patriotic is to love the People’s Republic of China, and the governing body of the People’s Republic of China is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
“As we don’t have faith in civil servants who refuse to sign the declaration, we will go through relevant procedures and ask them to resign,” he added.
According to official figures from the Civil Service Bureau, there are more than 177,000 civil servants in Hong Kong, excluding judges and judicial staff, officers at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and locally engaged staff working in Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices.
Many civil servants participated in the pro-democracy protests when millions of citizens took to the streets in recent years to oppose an extradition bill that would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial. The extradition bill has since been scrapped. These civil servants also organized their own rallies to speak out against the bill.
On June 30, 2020, China’s rubber-stamp legislature unanimously passed a new national security law for Hong Kong. Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong could face four types of charges under the new bill —secession,
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These were job entry requirements for new civil servants, and current government employees who refused to sign would be suspended from their post.
Ping!
As Hong Kong goes.....
Maybe we need more immigration to the US...there are people in the world who are truly being persecuted.
(How you’d sort them out from the CCP spies, I have no idea...but the latter already have plenty of entree.)
(How you’d sort them out from the CCP spies, I have no idea...but the latter already have plenty of entree.)
Steve Bannon could possibly assist, with this.
He’s been standing up/fighting for these Hong Kong citizens, fighting the CCP, for several years, now.
incremental tyranny with global aspirations
25 US states have laws that are similar to the CCP loyalty pledge, only not just for Civil Servants. The TX law has a clause where an employee agrees to not boycott Israel or Israeli products.
If the Texas law has changed, please correct me.
The so-called “No Boycott of Israel” bill’s sponsor, Representative Phil King, R-Weatherford, told news outlets in 2017 he introduced the legislation because as a Christian he felt his religious heritage is linked to Israel and the Jewish people.
With the new antisemitism law Abbott signed two days ago (also, from Phil King), I assume the former still stands.
The only thing surprising about this crack down is how long it took. China took control 20 years ago . I figured they would have imposed tyranny much sooner.
Don’t care. Part of China, Beijing can do as they wish. Not my circus, not my elephants.
Bkmk
Wow! The Demoncrat Party now has a foothold in Hong Kong.
Non-western people, including (and especially) Chinese are 2/3 Democratic voters. How can we remain a western culture if we import non-western people?
Not that I support what China is doing to Hong Kong, but the demands on these people is FAR LESS than what American companies (and for that matter, the government) is putting their employees through.
“The TX law has a clause where an employee agrees to not boycott Israel or Israeli products.”
How does the state enforce one not participating in a boycott?
Do state officials come to your home and force you at gun point to purchase goods from Israel?
Not really. Companies doing business with the State of Texas can not participate in any Boycott-Divest-Sanction.
The same goes for any charitable organization.
This is something that “churches” of Steven Anderson’s “New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist” cult rails about. BTW Steven Anderson is a known Holocaust denier and anti-Semite.
*** How does the state enforce one not participating in a boycott? ***
If a person refuses to sign such a clause, they don’t get hired, don’t have their contract renewed, or can be fired.
I suppose one could lie, and sign it, but some people, are honest, and refuse to lie, or sign.
Please specify exactly what you mean by ‘non-western’.
Does that go for the many Vietnamese people who wound up here after the war?
(And from what year are you taking your statistic?)
Far more important than maintaining our ‘Western Culture’, is that we maintain our Principles, as they are dictated by our Founding Documents. Those transcend ‘culture’, as anyone who reads and understands them will acknowledge. They represent HUMAN values.
Any immigrant who comes here has to learn those and pledge allegiance to them, to become a legal citizen. I’m certain that many ‘non-Western people’ have done that - and done it wholeheartedly.
Asian and Africans are not culturally western. They have a foreign worldview and cannot be assimilated. Even white washed Asian Americans tend to vote Dem.
Yes, I know people of Indian/Chinese/Filipino birth or parentage who are good people, but I favor a western country populated by western immigrants and their descendants.
I guess you don’t know many ‘White’ people in the US - some of them with ancestry here going back centuries - who always vote ‘Dem’.
(I suggest that they far outweigh the small ‘Asian’ population.)
And I really contest your notion that ‘Africans’ don’t have a ‘Western’ point of view. Most of the ones who come here were brought up in largely British schools. (Many of them speak better English than you do, too.)
Yes, but how does the state prohibit one from taking part on a boycott?
If a state employee never buys an Israeli product, is that considered taking part in a boycott?
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