oh come on the ground is empowering. the. agent of change. the female peacemakers storage january 5th. child to have a lot of what you read about most people all the training. reminds people of the racial count it is now and although very much at stake in china's recent celebrations for its 70th anniversary quite a public relations triumph it was supposed to be not worth continuing protests in hong kong and fresh revelations about human rights abuses in michigan jack reacher mark guest this week here in london victor gao the chinese academic and lawyer and

vice president of the center for china and globalization how does he justify china's catalogue of human rights abuses and the continuing pressure on hong kong. welcome to conduct so thank you for having me china has always insisted that it will do anything to avoid chaos it shot a large number of its own people in beijing 30 years ago to do that but it's failed comprehensively to address the protest in hong kong why maintaining stability has always been a pillar for china's development since the late a 19 seventies but it's failed to do it in the hong kong is that different ever since 1987 this part of china china has practiced a one country 2 systems so in hong kong. the primary responsibility of maintaining

law and order is resting on the shoulders of the whole cot is our government and the chief executive carries government that's approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent is doing beijing's business not doing it is not doing it very well is it it's failed it's failed to keep the hated extradition mordant it was forced to withdraw that it tried threats calling the demonstrators rampant in the range them warning that a blow from the sort of law was waiting for them in the future these threats and the effect well i think there are china not understand what it's dealing with because i think there are many different ways to look at what's happening in hong kong i would say the primary situation right now is law enforcement you are talking about a restoration of law and order in hong kong and democracy of course when the british

left hong kong in 19 only 78 did not leave behind a lot of democracy to talk about but the british did leave behind deeply entrenched the rule of law tradition and i think we all need to be very grateful for that and it is now law and order very much at stake in hong kong we should not be confused with been the other grievances and political pursuits in hong kong they are important and they need to be dealt with but law and order is the primary responsibility of the hong kong government right now they think to look at the results of the local elections in november the enormous blow to turn this prestige 22 years after the territory was handed over by britain the pro-democracy camp tripled its vote from 2015 they won 17 out of 18 councils none of which they previously were allowed me to make several points 1st of all the district election results speed. for itself however the district councils in hong kong cannot operate

without stability and evolve as prevailed none of the 18 district councils cared really serve the primary purpose they are set up for you are missing the point of my question perhaps intentionally i don't know but the point is that this was the largest probating party which was forced to declare defeat for this major defeat we said we do not want to find any excuses and reasons this was star chair of the largest probating party this is a big blow to tell him this best piece is the no my reading is very different hong kong is a democracy and there is universal suffrage in hong kong for the people of hong kong for the district council elections therefore the fact that the election results are such speak loudly for the favor of hong kong has democratic rights people can vote whatever they want to do for the results speak for themselves because none of the persons are running for the described district council had

a in the courage to stand out for violence they stood for legal and lawful means of exercising their democratic rights i think that counts so so long as democracy. exercised the peacefully and lawfully everyone is a winner no one is a loser what we need to the popes in hong kong is violet's you that is the key you ignore the fact that china's plan has been to chip away at hong kong's freedoms and democracy and so they were all meaningless and then beijing reassert full control in that that's been the plan hasn't it all wrong again with due respect i disagree why should beijing of the central government in hong kong. take away any liberties or freedoms in hong kong with a deal they did mr y like the kidnapping of 5 homegrown booksellers is that into 2 . in mainland china the crackdown on those who led the 2014 process the highly

controversial decision to allow mainland chinese police to operate in the west kowloon station all this is chipping away at the freedoms of hong kong beijing imagine that people wouldn't notice this i think we need to really keep an eye on the big picture that is ever since 1997 hong kong has managed to keep its relative independence judiciary independence for example political system there has been no change in search or if you talk about specific cases we can go into details if you have more time let's deal with universal suffrage because that's been most controversial the refusal of the hong kong government to move towards universal suffrage for the chief executive position as outlined in the basic law even after the standing committee of the national people's congress in beijing route 2017 could see the start of universal service with this position the date

came and went so the promise hasn't happened has it and perhaps beijing never intended for the promise should be fulfilled and i think we need to be clear as to what we are talking about universal suffrage no problem with that you already have universal suffrage for the district council election in hong kong as we wish using moment of it or its meaning because it's a very important that you don't have it for the chief executive despite the fact that it's promised it's in the basic law then again allow me to measure you you are talking about universal suffrage or direct election of the chief exec exactly does the united kingdom have to re-election for the prime minister not all we're not we're talking about what's in the basically moved from hong kong because we're not talking about what things are like in britain or in america or on mars you can play the what about game indefinitely i'm talking about hong kong what it said was in the basic law. the ultimate aim is the selection of the chief executive by

universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures and that didn't need these questions are everywhere for everyone to see the in a certain universal suffrage is dollar problem direct election that the protesters are now demanding is a problem because why do you want to give something that neither the united states nor the dollar can and have had 400 years is what they see that they were promised mr get out right now as you pointed out hong kong residents have freedom of the press freedom of the internet actually dependent courts multi-party elections even with the district councils this painting seriously think that by 2047 these people are ever going to willingly give up you know i think the one country 2 systems a promise an end in 25 plays only up to 2047 now remember when 10 shopping were

still alive and he was the key architect for the one country 2 system he said for the record that if the one country 2 system will work out for the 1st 50 years why couldn't it be extended for another 50 years so there is an uncertainty as to what will happen in hong kong after 2047 i would say everything will come to their end if for example violence continues in hong kong however if stability prosperity development and the improvement of the people's living standards are the normal things all the way leading up to 247 why couldn't the one country 2 systems apply more years of asking me you have to talk to the beijing's leadership of this if if things don't go to beijing's liking and i'm sure they're not too pleased about the protests than the demands for freedom and the demands for china to live

up to its promises in its international obligations. do you think people are going to accept life in china crushing level of censorship what the un high commission for human rights recently called a context of increasing limitation on fundamental rights in china people in hong kong will ever accept allow me to measure one point you know put in hong kong in the overall magnitude of the scale of china or whatever bad things that have happened in the home of the past 6 months things in china is is is at the best it can be called a storm in a teacup it's not going to change meaningfully anything that's happening in people's republic of china at all what beijing is unhappy about adamantly is the poles to is the violence in hong kong let's be honest and straightforward with no country either britain of the united states will tolerate the level of violence

that has engulfed hong kong for the past 6 months no country and one or more of those china step in and stop it some of. them well let's speak philosophical about it if you read the basic law the primary responsibility of maintaining law and order rests with the hong kong government the s.l.a. failure approved government yes it's a doll sed and mandated by the basic law my point is though that if china fully takes over control of whole in 2047 and think so little of human rights as the un says it does do you really expect the people of hong kong to embrace the kind of life you haven't chosen i mean the legal obligations and commitments the multiple laws decrees and policies in particular those concerning national security and terrorism which the un says deeply erode the foundations for the viable social

economic and political development of society you think after having the freedoms that they have in hong kong they're going to accept. kind of life from china let's be honest about it china is in firm control of the situation in hong kong as far as over india is concerned no one in the world can really 2nd this 2nd guess this point or really take hong kong away from china that's for the record let's do not 2nd guess about that of course on that one country 2 system hong kong peeps it's political system in hong kong the capital is the system but do you think anyone will realistically expect the hong kong can be misused as a stronghold against china no i that. day i know all the way to 20 and 47 go unanswered in the question on us which is where the beijing imagines hong kong would set the kind of restrictions that. people in the mainland after 2047 china has folders question to decide what kind of political system will prevail in

hong kong more no one full of hong kong gets in return for being subsumed into children or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch called one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047 their owners records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of rights. you really think the people of hong kong a 2nd class i need some about in my life not only looking forward to that i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about china let's look at how china is developing let's look at china lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty let's look at how hong kong has benefited a tremendously over the past 22 years after being part of the one country to system after china we exercised is sovereignty over hong kong this is the make it

let's talk about says it was the guy in an interview earlier in the year you called . it unfortunate censorship in china you said hopefully eventually there will be less censorship leading towards no censorship at all and i hope they'll be a day when people in china can freely watch foreign broadcasters that's pretty full on hope isn't it when you consider that 400000000 extra c.c.t.v. cameras are going online and the unprecedented degree of intrusion by the state into people's lives that we're seeing things are not moving in the direction you hopeful of the what you call to it was my view earlier this year it is still my view today and i think it will remain in my view for the rest of my life but it's a lesson on hope business things that are not going this way not less a search a ship maybe good however every society has its own says divisions do says about look at the united states this says a lot of things that the people here in britain do not care about in britain e.u.

says other things in israel because as a mother you go you're talking about a very solid sized gesture stay with china you admitted this you said the monitoring of social behavior of people in china does exist there are quite a few aspects of that which i personally do not like is the detention of around a 1000000 with their muslims engine junge one of the aspects that you don't personally like i visited many times i have many wheedle friends islamic friends in charge didn't ask you that i deal with them as brothers and sisters i think to really ask responsible questions about we need to know the spread of terrorism and separatism and extremism. hasn't been a terrorism issue joe for the last 4 years why because you were the government as it was locked up people without rights and without recourse and without any redress and with the ability to challenge their own incarceration you think that's

a good way of doing things we're talking about the detention and so cool. training centers which were 1st denied and then finally admitted by beijing last year the un says people were sent there under the guise of counter-terrorism and the extremism policies which you've just mentioned and amid extensive limitations on the exercise of fund the mental rights. part of the. make a point terrorism just did not come out of the vacuum terrorism is the result of a process and the process is very much dominated by indoctrination and extremism for example engine john there is no denying there is an increasing level of radicalization many families actually deny their kids the right to education which in china is considered as an offense or a crime no one in china has any right to deprive their kids mr ground war is i

believe one was expressing concerns about increasing practices of arbitrary detention in forced disappearance absence of judicial oversight and we strictures on the right to freedom of expression freedom of thought conscience and religion quite a list isn't quite a list also the right to freedom of assembly and movement within what it calls an increasingly securitized environment this is a catalog of rights to which your government has formally signed up in binding international treaties and which it is now violating wholesale and asking you whether you're proud of all that 2 points 1st of all the united nations generally speaking is in line with what china has been doing over the past 4 decades or so if there isn't a line with the treatment as you well know more than 50 countries in the world support what the japanese government is doing in dealing with terrorism extremism 57 it is hardly beacons of human rights many of which are muslim countries let's

let's be honest about many of these countries. islam and many of the inquiry states you're proud that the u.s. china as well minus say that all in the world no really you're proud that the un had to remind you that you have an obligation to respect and protect individual rights under the universal declaration absolutely human rights are only very important you know why do you think all you all of your international obligations because you're violating them wholesale noir feel put it in international contests the united nations keeps reminding the united states and many other developed countries of the rights that they failed to give to their people that's on a routine we're not talking we're not talking about the u.s. i know you want to evade it. you cannot you have a liaison we can have that we can absolutely talk about what china is doing in isolation but one of the requests for information submitted to beijing last month

by 12 u.n. human rights rapporteurs was was this please provide detailed information on the judicial oversight and control exercised by judges of a persons placed in riyadh facilities following charges under the counter terrorism law let me make a bet with you this request is never going to be answered by beijing is this i hope with my help or with other peoples help you can do an interview joe i can help you to read some of these young arms from my question it's not because i feel a thing is not going north of this because there's no judicial oversight over the 1000000 or so we gives in detention most of the inmates have neither been charged with not convicted of any crime nor being given any chance to challenge their incarceration as i said earlier and that's fair and you're happy with all that no i think you misquote the situation radicalization is a process at different stages of radicalization you need to come up with strategies

to deal radicalize the population including for example what i emphasized for the reg. denying any family is misbehavior of depriving their kids the right to go to school thanks to leaked documents and despite considerable attempts at secrecy by beijing we now have massive amounts of detail about what these institutions are doing including a leaked manual for officials running and operating these places one of the documents that was released describe detailed controls on each individual student should have a fixed bed position a fixed queue position a fixed classroom seat and fixed station during skills were strictly forbidden to be change you like this kind of repression you support this kind of oppression. you may call it repression or you may call it educational or training school or teaching methods if you go to a credit school for example if you're training for the military you need to

exercise alcohol as hard as we are comparable mr gubb we've also seen beijing's instruction to officials in these camps implement behavioral norms and discipline requirements for getting up rollcall washing going to the toilet organizing and housekeeping eating studying sleeping closing the door and so forth you're trying to build robots in japan know what your breed about reminds most the people of a training camp over training that reminds people of intrusion camps in the mind of people of concentration and what will serve china to concentrate people up to let's say in using only at number 1000000 or 2000000 this is not a concentration camp as far as based on my personal knowledge of my dealings with the wiggles brothers or sisters in june john this is not what you are describing are violent but are cries from reality. not not according to the evidence seen by

the un and democratic governments around the world these camps let's call them concentration camps they violate all basic rights and freedoms belong to human beings under the universal declaration of human rights which you are supposed to abide by not i would say that china fight this war against terrorism let the british fight your war against spread terrorism and lead stalled confused terrorism extremism and the separatism with what you would call human rights and democracy even if one accepted your pretense you have taken away every right that the set you have illegally incarcerated these people without trial and without any chance for them to challenge that incarceration that is illegal and i would think that doesn't . your international obligations i would say you're imposing your view of the rule of law onto china let china have its on the rule of law this is the rule of law all

offenses at is as it see fits we are not talking about britain well not talk here by your united states we are talking about a sovereign government with legal rights to deal with the threats of terrorism and extremism we're talking about lies asia that's the key in china no one in china wants to be a victim of terrorism is the guy you let you know that he was a shirt according to the doctors you're looking at people who harbor vague understandings negative attitudes or even feelings of resistance carry out education transformation to ensure that results achieve that's the instruction that beijing gives you looking at people who harbor vague understanding is that all they've ever done wrong and for that you put them in one of these camps and throw away the key so you're wrong and you think that's ok and i think a lot of people including the u.n. and human rights organizations believe that you have forfeited the right country so

you are quoting something as if it is from the bible no this is not sacred things this may not be verified already using your standard of journalism i hope you'll be realistic it's an validated by considerably people than journalists i hope you will really verify this with me it's not journalistic standards you're telling me it's not true i don't think this is true because what china is faced to with is terrorism radicalization and separatism and extremism that's the menace in china which is also faced by many other countries in the world look at the bombing here in lebanon look at the terrorist attack against innocent people who really want to have this kind of terrorist. disease prevailing in your country or europe we have a common common task to do and you united against terrorism and that's

a challenge not fazed by china long that's the challenge faced by man kind as a whole. era lawyers the guy yes even the lawyer who's licensed to practice in new york absolutely and youth i mean a lot of this kind of behavior by government is acceptable that's remarkable now i think the libbers test is to put an end to terrorism that's the key number why shouldn't. the drawer and human rights wholesale that's what you say you want that's aleikum spend our time with the reality on the ground probably have no shame about these conditions protecting human rights protecting human rights will always be the most important thing as promoting democracy but on the other hand fighting terrorism and extremism is equally important in china as well as in your case or anywhere else in the world that's the bottom line we need to work together to fight

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