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Hong Kong is not only the authorities of the authorities, but also the homeland and settlement of Hong Kong people.Any controversy and resistance should take into account the overall situation, do not dig the walls.

The House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress agreed on October 15 and passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democratic Acts.The bill will soon be reviewed in the Senate, and observers expect that they will not have any suspense in the Senate.

Not long ago, a well -known person in Hong Kong's opposition spoke at the US Congress on the Human Rights and Democracy Acts in the US Congress, and strongly called on the US Congress to pass the bill.The day before the bill was about to be performed, Hong Kong was allegedly that 200,000 people rally called on the US Congress to pass the most spicy version of the bill.

Today, the bill has been passed in the US House of Representatives and is the most severe version.Hong Kong opposition and anti -sedimentation participants cheered because of their wishes.

If you carefully study the Hong Kong Human Rights Act, you will find that, in fact, the most deadly point of the bill is the amendment to the 1992 US -Hong Kong Policy Law in 1992: That is, the US Secretary of State should submit a report to Congress every year.To examine whether Hong Kong still has sufficient autonomy to enjoy the special treatment (including tariffs) given by the United States.

Although the bill contains several provisions on supporting Hong Kong's universal elections, being kind to resistant and sanctions.But that is actually limited.For example, the relevant personnel on sanctions are assets frozen in the United States or refused to enter the country.First of all, for relevant persons, the United States is not indispensable, nor of property must be hidden in the United States.Secondly, even if you sanction several officials of the Hong Kong government or the police, it has nothing to do with the overall situation of Hong Kong. After all, they are not the final decision maker.

Therefore, for Hong Kong, although the bill provides a political support for the Hong Kong's opposition campaign, it is an economically threat and damage to Hong Kong's existing economic status.

Hong Kong's special treatment was originally the default. There is no need to worry about being lost. Now it has become a risk status that requires annual review and is at any time that may be deprived of existing treatment. From risk -free to risk, it is a kind of qualification.Dowager.

Imagine that once a year, the special treatment of Hong Kong, including the independent customs zone, is deprived, and will be a huge unbearable economic disaster for Hong Kong.

We might as well imagine a large picture: According to the concerns of the Hong Kong resistance, mainland Chinese authorities want to deprive the Hong Kong people's political freedom.So they are going to fight.Today, the United States deprives Hong Kong's special treatment and the economic foundation of Hong Kong's prosperity.Hong Kong people were cheering.This seems to be a joint Sino -US joint to deal with Hong Kong: one starting from politics and the other starts from the economy.In the Hong Kong people, one was demonized by the demon, but the other was Madamic.

If the two aspects of the concerns and cheers of the Hong Kong people have really become a reality, and today the young people of Hong Kong's young people voted with their feet, and the freedom and economic prosperity pursued by death were gone.What is it?

In the subconscious of some anti -contention, there seems to be a split thinking: that is, freedom is its own, and economic prosperity is the authorities.So freedom is worth defending.The economic prosperity can be abandoned as a lot of time, can indulge in people's arbitrarily destroying damage, or strongly call for outsiders to take it away.

May wish to have an analogy: there are two treasures in a family, the value of the two is the same, and the function is different.One of the treasures is said to be lost. The whole family was panicked and was trying to preserve it.However, another treasure may not be lost, but the family not only did not cherish it, but actively asked for outsiders to take this treasure, or to encourage and condon the children in the family to break it.Broken a treasure, or put it in the risks that may be lost at any time in order to preserve the previous treasure. Isn't this kind of thinking quite strange?

Of course, Hong Kong is important to China, allowing Hong Kong to be deprived of treatment at any time. Of course, it is unwilling to see that the authorities of China and Hong Kong are unwilling to see it.However, Hong Kong is not only the authorities of the authorities, but it is also the homeland of Hong Kong's own homeland and economy.Hong Kong's prosperity today is not easy. It is the result of the hard work of Hong Kong people in the past and the ancestral industry of Hong Kong people.

Ask outsiders to settle their ancestors and peace of mind, put them in risks, and cheer them, or even though their children want to damage it wantonly, this kind of economic self -harm is obviously not rational.

Even though a bill that harms Hong Kong's economic status may cause inconvenience to the authorities and damage the interests of the rich and nobles, it will be more injured and risk -free of ordinary, bottom -level Hong Kong people.The upper society can, even for a long time. Overseas of the children's Jade Tibetan, once it is unfavorable, can abandon the ship at any time, and where can those ordinary Hong Kong people who can only die with Hong Kong can go?

The problem is not only there. This is not one of the two. You would rather give up one to preserve another problem.

Since the emergence of the campaign this time, there has been a sound in the mainland, requiring to use severe means to deal with Hong Kong's demonstrations.The reason why this opinion has not been adopted by the mainland authorities so far is one and its important reason is that the independent customs zone and the world's third largest financial center that Hong Kong still has so far.It still has important and incompetent value to reduce the pressure of the Sino -US trade war.Therefore, the existing international economic status in Hong Kong is actually equivalent to a amulet for the existing political system and freedom of Hong Kong.

Imagine that once Hong Kong people have lost their foundation, they call on outsiders to deprive their amulets or destroy themselves. Once Hong Kong's prosperity is no longer, the independent customs zone is gone, and the third largest financial center in the world is gone.It lost its original economic value, so the original scruples that stopped the use of stricter measures to Hong Kong disappeared.In the end, people in Hong Kong may lose both.

For Hong Kong people, whether it is a ruling authorities, or oppositions and resistance, they should cherish Hong Kong, not only to cherish its existing political system and freedom, but also cherish its existing international economic status and prosperity.Any disputes and resistance should take care of this overall situation, and should not take care of each other, otherwise it will be damaged, resulting in a full loss.

The author is Chinese aesthetic scholar