What the arrest of Joshua Wong tells us: the Chinese Communist regime does not change. And it bets on the sloth of the West
Joshua Wong Chi-fung was born in 1996 in a still formally British Hong Kong. In 2014, just eighteen, he became the best known face of a protest that for 80 days called for free and transparent elections, among thousands of umbrellas opened as the only shield against the stinging gas of the Chinese police.
Two years later he founded, with Agnes Chow, the pro-democracy Demosisto party , torn to pieces last June by a national security law dropped like an atomic bomb by Beijing on what remained of the independence of the special region. Many activists abandon and take refuge abroad. Joshua Wong chooses to stay, even though he knows they will make him pay dearly. Yesterday, around one in the afternoon (morning in Italy) they pick it up and take it to the central police station. After three hours, they release him on charges of illegal participation in the demonstrations on October 5, 2019 and of violation of the law on the use of masks in public rallies. A pretext, a warning, not news. Joshua Wong already knows the country's prisons: in 2017 he spent six months in a cell for his role in the umbrella movement, another three between 2018 and 2019 for resistance to a public official and offense to the court. Pretexts, warnings, not news. The eternal game of dictatorships to let you know that you are never alone, that the big eye is always on you. Joshua Wong will be tried on September 30 and faces six years of darkness. As soon as he was released, he declared that he will never give up, because many of his comrades are unjustly detained for the same reasons, in Hong Kong and in China.
He is a Joshua Wong warrior, but of a war already lost. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will not stop, we have written this several times, because its predatory nature needs constant sacrifices to fuel the machine of submission. Sinologists, sometimes in good faith but more often simply domesticated by ideology, try in vain to find breaks, solutions of continuity, in the long history of death and oppression that has been the daily story of popular China since 1949. What is happening today in Hong Kong, in Tibet, in Xinjiang, but in reality throughout the Chinese territory, does not depend on the political circumstances of the moment, on the more or less authoritarian character of a general secretary, on the dynamics within the Party, which they are present: it depends on the original vice of a revolution – yet another one – which immediately turned into a perfect instrument of overwhelming man over man.
In the climate of this confused and lying era in which authoritarianism, especially if of a social-communist matrix, finds throngs of deniers willing to rehabilitate it, an obviousness like this becomes an almost sacrilegious statement. As demonstrated by the posthumous exaltation of Rossana Rossanda, a sort of collective ritual through which to pay homage, as if it were a vestal of democracy, to a communist militant who – legitimately, God forbid – chose to marry the Maoist cause and promoted it from the columns of the Manifesto . The same newspaper that last year celebrated the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China without any hint of self-criticism (a word that should also be dear to the comrades), in a very long and detailed apologetic special where the term "dictatorship" never appeared.
Today, not the heir but the continuation of one of the most bloodthirsty ideological systems of the twentieth century (it's a good fight on the left, I realize), the CCP demonstrates that it has perfectly understood the air in the West: after causing the spread of the deadliest virus in a hundred years now and having collected the dividends thanks to a wise operation of propaganda and occupation of the appropriate international institutions, can concentrate without even having to conceal to close the accounts with the "rebel provinces", perfectly aware of the absolute impunity it will have.
It is the export of the Tiananmen Square massacre in slow motion . Today as then, business as usual . Joshua Wong is a fly that flies around the congested faces of the Communist hierarchs.
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