In a gob-smacking piece of pseudo-journalism, the BBC recently lamented that Hong Kong was at peace.
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In a gob-smacking piece of pseudo-journalism, the BBC recently lamented that Hong Kong was at peace. Hong Kong, the BBC tells us, has gone to hell because “there used to be protests, big or small, nearly every weekend – but now open displays of dissent are unimaginable”.
Whereas the BBC sees Hong Kong’s 2019/20 riots as some golden age of MI6 puppets sticking it to China’s President Xi, they are not my abiding memories of those memory-holed events. I remember being horrified seeing accountants from mainland China being immolated for no other reason than they were based in Hong Kong to do their boring jobs and I remember screaming along with tens of millions of others at the Chinese authorities to get off their collective arses and sort out those trouble makers and the MI6 run NGOs egging them on.
The riots struck a note with me as I have a decades’ long familiarity with middle class Hong Kong students and I never imagined they would ever instigate such barbaric acts of pure terror. And nor, of course, did Xi and his merry men, which is why they were so slow off the mark in quelling those dangerous fires.
As regards democracy or the lack of it in Hong Kong, first off, there was none of that when the British ruled the roost and it was a bit rich of Chris Patten and the unelected King (then Prince) Charles to demand democracy for Hong Kong when the Royal Navy sailed them away from Hong Kong in 1997 with their Union Jack tucked firmly between their tails.
Next off, China cannot really afford American-style democracy, which is only a pretext for MI6 and the CIA to install Trojan Horses and instigate Colour Revolutions, as per Gene Sharpe’s tried and tested handbook. China has, in essence, two problems, the problem of multiplication and the problem of division which is that a small problem like, say, immolating Chinese accountants in Hong Kong, becomes a huge problem when magnified across China, whose national cake has to be divided 1.6 billion ways.
Although China’s actions in the South China Sea are indefensible, on Hong Kong, China was right. And MI6 should really just suck it up and chalk their attempted insurrection down to experience. This is not to deny that the protesters had some legitimate economic beef but to say that MI6 enabling them to set Chinese accountants on fire is not the way to make their point.
The BBC does not quite see it that way. Hong Kong’s ivory towers, its accountancy faculties presumably included, “which once attracted top talent”, are now haunted by the fear of being grassed out to the authorities and “progressive classrooms”, and “academic freedom, even in Chinese studies” now, sadly, all seem a thing of the past.
Let me stop the BBC right there. Hong Kong attracted top talent because they paid top wages, all the more so if housing was part of the deal. As regards “progressive classrooms”, and “academic freedom, even in Chinese studies,” that was simply parasites and their snake oil jumping on the bandwagon in Hong Kong, as they jump on it everywhere else as well.
The very thought of foreigners going to Hong Kong to lecture the Chinese on China is a joke and I say that as one who has had to work with those self-serving jokers, who have, as we will shortly see in the case of CIA pin up girl Rowena He, nothing more than a worthless Ivy League PhD in a soft science to recommend them. Hong Kong and the rest of China are better off without them. If, as there is, there is a demand for courses in Chinese art, Chinese history or Chinese ceramics, then there are plenty of Chinese willing and, I daresay, able to teach such courses without the white trash of Asia and their Chinese clones hogging the gig.
Allied to that is Stephen Karganovic’s recent article on academics reformulating Ukraine, a topic we have touched on many times before and which is part and parcel of the CIA’s global playbook. The Chinese do not need some American, Australian or British leech telling them how flooding the country with opium helped spread democracy and, presumably, the pox. They need such American assets like their ancestors needed the opium the British plied them with.
And, though, in my experience at least, many Chinese lecturers have not been up to par, they seem to make a jolly good job of it in China. Here, for example, is an earlier BBC report of the world of difference between the maths needed to get into a British and a Chinese university. It is simply no contest: not only are the Chinese light years ahead but it is high time they jettisoned the academic droppings of empire.
The BBC does not see it that way. To them, Hong Kong, their Camelot of the East, is no more: “The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was a battleground in 2019, with black-clad protesters and riot police trading petrol bombs, bricks, tear gas and rubber bullets”. Sadly, at least according to the BBC, those halcyon days are now gone and the university has reverted to its core mission of teaching and research. Even “the statue of the Goddess of Democracy, which was erected in memory of the thousands who died in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is gone”.
The Goddess of Democracy? It seems that harkens back to some earlier crap erected in Beijing in 1989 and not to Libertas, the Roman Goddess. But what, in the name of Jesus and His Blessed Mother, were Hong Kong Catholics doing worshipping a patently false God (or Goddess, to be pedantic about it)? Like, what gives?
Rowena He, Another Martyr At The Altar Of The Goddess
Having bushwhacked us with this worshipping of a Roman Goddess, the article finishes with the illuminating case of Rowena He, whose contract to lecture in history at CUHK was discontinued, an incredible act of suppression given that “Hong Kong was a beacon for the scholar of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, who was born and raised in Guangzhou. She grew up on Hong Kong dramas, and watched the city’s journalists report on what happened in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989. She also took part in the Tiananmen movement in Guangzhou that year.”
Ok then. He had a dog in the Tiananmen fight and she went on to do a PhD in Canada on it and win a number of minor plaudits in North America by virtue of her “research”, which was obviously in lock step with the CIA’s own take.
However, He’s Wikipedia entry raises a number of red flags (no pun intended). Because she is a one trick pony, it seems, 1960s’ Cantonese soapies apart, all she is competent to rabbit on about is the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident and all without being able to put it into any larger political, economic or other context. As Wikipedia cites only one publication for her, dealing with surprise, surprise, the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, it is no wonder her students in Hong Kong repeatedly objected to this piper of the one CIA tune.
That said, it seems Hong Kong’s educational sector is going to start singing another tune and not before time as it strives to double its intake of foreign students, a difficult task given the high rental costs there. And though Saudi Arabia and Nigeria are prime targets, I doubt the young students from those countries will be too interested in He’s take on a minor incident in Beijing 34 years ago.
That is not to say that Tiananmen Square is unimportant but that it must be seen in context as, for example, the 1789 French Revolution must. I mention that event because when Chinese leader Zhou EnLai was asked what he thought its ramifications were, he famously said, perhaps with tongue in cheek, it was too early to tell.
And though it is also too early to call on the changes currently going on in Hong Kong and all of China, I for one, applaud China’s move away from Gender Studies, Beckham Studies, Madonna Studies and He’s Navel Gazing Studies, just as I rejoice in the sinking of HMS BBC which, like sociology itself, has spread like a rash amongst students, who might have known better had they been spared such dumbing down courses.
Although Karganovic’s recent article shows he is wide to this ploy, it seems the Chinese authorities are belatedly catching on as to how they and many others, Saudis and Nigerians included, like them have been taken for a massive ride with this academic pottage.
In the meantime, if President Xi or the BBC want me to fill in for He by giving a lecture series in Hong Kong on the 1914 Bachelor’s Walk massacre in Dublin, they can hit me up. I’ll even throw in lectures on mathematical modelling and financial risk management so that it might be some way relevant to those in today’s China, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, who have better things to do than partake in BBC inspired violent “protests, big or small, nearly every weekend”. Though I don’t care whether Xi gets back to me about that tongue in cheek offer, it like all offers like it, whether they be from Chinese or non-Chinese citizens, is a much better deal than what He, her Cantonese afternoon TV shows, her Tiananmen Square trash and her CIA handlers have to offer.
