It is striking how much the Communist Party has trusted civil servants in Hong Kong nurtured by the British. But unrest in 2019 stoked the party’s anxieties about the loyalty of government officials
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskTrust is something that the party does not have in abundance as it surveys the city’s elite. Since the territory was handed back to China by Britain in 1997, that elite, minus the British, has remained largely the same. China has relied heavily on two types of people to do its bidding there: businesspeople and members of the bureaucratic aristocracy . Both types have proved underwhelming.
It is striking how much the party has trusted civil servants nurtured by the British. The territory’s first post-colonial chief secretary, Anson Chan, was an. She had also served in that capacity under Hong Kong’s last colonial governor, Chris Patten, who was much despised by China. Mrs Chan later became a pro-democracy politician and critic of the party . Donald Tsang, the second chief executive, had been knighted by the British.
Party-controlled newspapers in Hong Kong fumed. “Insider devils”, a commentary in one of them called the dissenting officials. To prevent further unrest, China imposed a harsh national-security law on Hong Kong in June 2020 and moved to bar those deemed “unpatriotic” from public office. This included purging the legislature—and the election committee that chooses the chief executive—of opposition politicians .
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