Key words: pan-democrats, collusion, Nation Democratic
Institute (NDI), cost Hong Kong its political future, 11:15 conspiracy, Traitorgate
Background
Many people in Hong will be familiar with the decision of
the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) on 31 August
2014 to set what many saw as a restrictive framework for selecting Hong Kong’s
Chief Executive in 2017, but almost no one in Hong Kong knows the reason why.
For a clue to the NPCSC reasoning, we need to look
carefully at what Wang Guangya said when he met a delegation of Hong Kong
pan-democrat legislators in Shen Zhen on 30 May 2015 in a last ditch attempt to
persuade them not to vote the proposal down, but as we all know the
pan-democrats rejected the proposal on 18 June 2015. In his meeting, this is
what Wang Guangya said1:
A small number of people ... have colluded
with external forces and used these forces trying to oppose the central
government and the relations between the central government and Hong Kong.
Actually, they are opposed to the principle of one country, two systems. Who are those people? You know more than
me.
We cannot let those people assume the Chief Executive
post. Once they assumed the Chief Executive post, it would be castastrophic to
the country, Hong Kong and the principle of one country, two systems.
Who are the
external forces Wang Guangya was referring to?
The external forces that Wang Guangya is referring to are
the US Government funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) and more
specifically two NDI personnel operating in Hong Kong, Belinda Winterbourne (NDI Resident Program Manager 2008 – 2012) and
Stephen TONG (NDI Resident Program Officer 2006 – 2012).
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| Belinda Winterboune, NDI Program Manager in Hong Kong |
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| Stephen TONG, NDI Program Officer in Hong Kong |
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| Belinda Winterbourne and Stephen TONG with Bruno Kaufmann and Christian Gruenler The meeting later moved to another venue because of noise disturbance |
What’s the evidence for this?
On 15 November 2009, Belinda Winterbourne and Stephen TONG conspired with Cyd HO, Gary FAN, a representative of the League of
Social Democrats and others to trigger the 2010 defacto ‘referendum’.
The conspiracy was
videotaped and put on YouTube in a series of eleven short videos (Part 1/11 to
Part 11/11). You can see a full write up on the conspiracy here: http://nedprogramsinhk.blogspot.com/2016/08/conspiracy-between-pan-democratic.html
In the 10th video in the series Belinda Winterbourne uttered the following
words which essentially cost Hong Kong it’s political future:
Christian
raised the point that how much time do
we have. Just now he mentioned you know ‘til January for example, but let’s
say if we did want to conduct a civil
referendum let’s say between now and the end of the (inaudible), how long
does it usually take to educate the public on civil referendum, cos I presume
that you’d have to do a lot of publicity prior to the actual exercise umm and educate them why we are doing this and
you know how does that vote count eventually.
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| This is the moment Belinda Winterbourne cost Hong Kong its political future |
When Belinda Winterbourne of the NDI used the word ‘we’, she cost Hong Kong it’s political
future.
Who are the legislators
who colluded with the NDI?
Who were the conspirators?
The following legislators or their representatives took
part in the conspiracy:
Cyd HO Sau-lan
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| Cyd HO Sau-lan |
Gary FAN Kwok-wai
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| Gary FAN Kwok-wai |
YEUNG Kai-cheung
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| YEUNG Kai-cheung |
Who were the
collaborators?
The following
legislators collaborated in this conspiracy by resigning on 26 January 2010 to
trigger the defacto ‘referendum’:
Albert CHAN Wai-yip
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| Albert CHAN Wai-yip |
‘Long Hair’ LEUNG
Kwok-hung
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| LEUNG Kwok-hung |
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| Raymond WONG Yuk-man |
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| Alan LEONG Kah-kit |
Tanya CHAN Suk-chong
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| Tanya CHAN Suk-chong |
Comment
You can vote for
these legislators if you want to, but if you do, understand this – there will
be no progress in Hong Kong on democratic reform until none of them are left in
LegCo.
References
1The Standard. Spelling it out. 1 June 2015. See link here: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=157481
See more information on the
conspiracy here: http://nedprogramsinhk.blogspot.com/2016/08/conspiracy-between-pan-democratic.html
Photo credits
Belinda Winterbourne and Stephen TONG. Vic Perton on
Flickr. See link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8552305@N06/1394589493
Belinda Winterbourne, Stephen TONG, Cyd HO, Gary FAN and YEUNG Kai-cheong screen grabs. From Eleven videos were taken during the conspiracy
and uploaded onto Youtube by “hkdirectelection”
under the title 交流會：直接民主和民間公投 in December 2009 (Numbered Part 1/11 to Part
11/11). See link to the videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_w0DcbpJZE
Civic Party. Alan
LEONG Kah-kit. http://www.civicparty.hk/?q=en/node/3333
Civic Party. Tanya
CHAN. http://www.civicparty.hk/?q=en/node/3201
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