Abstract
Carrie Lam, the fourth Chief Executive was “Too
Pro-China” to insist on the autonomy or enhance the struggle of Hong Kong for
autonomy as proposed by the 1997 China’s promises to the United Kingdom, Hong
Kong and the international community, that it would operate a “One Nation-Two
Systems” for fifty years, ending in 2047. The last twenty-five years have been
characterized by broken promises, failed covenants, unnecessary political
meddling, judicial undercutting, press gagging and restrictions on freedom of
speech leading to protests, advocacy, instability and political tension in the
territory. The UK which should have intervened by reminding China of the July
1, 1997 pledges and accord and in absolute terms compel China to uphold the
agreements, has been burdened by socio-political, economic and domestic
challenges. China has taken advantage of UK’s domestic problems and political
instability to violate the agreements over Hong Kong. This article argues that
the people of Hong Kong were aware of/already sensed a consistent decline in
China’s resolve to allow freedom of speech, democracy, freedom of the press,
uninterrupted judicial process, fundamental human rights and the British
educational system. This article concludes that while the UK kept her promise
to transfer HK to China after Ninety-Nine years (1898-1997). China has refused
to keep to the post transfer treaty. The covenant of fifty years has been
broken almost immediately after it was signed. The UK on the other hand has
broken the ethical/moral covenant to keep China on the covenant lane. Aside
pockets of condemnations, no sanctions have been recommended or applied for
failure or default by China. This paper is essentially a field research with
reliance on primary and secondary sources of data in published outlets such as
journals and online articles, newspaper interviews, and books. Its scope is
limited to issue and content analysis of Hong Kong’s struggle to make China
keep her promises. The study adopts the Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy as a
theoretical guide. It captures the essence of the struggles in Hong Kong.
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