Pro Beijing warehouse (Hong Kong)
As a pro-Beijing camp , pro-Chinese camp or beijing faithful bearings ( English Pro-Beijing camp , pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp ; Chinese 建制派 or親中派), all political forces in the Hong Kong SAR , refers to the generally support the policy of the government of the People's Republic of China in Beijing . The Beijing-loyal press also calls it the "Patriotic Front" and the pro-democracy camp on the other hand calls its supporters "Loyalists".
The pro-Beijing camp developed out of the supporters of communist China in Hong Kong, who were simply referred to as the "left" and followed the policy of the People's Republic of China, for example with regard to China's claim to Hong Kong. The activities of the forerunners of today's pro-Beijing camp began in 1967 with left-wing uprisings against British colonial rule . The supporters of the People's Republic of China always faced the supporters of the Kuomintang . After the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong was signed in 1984, in which China's sovereignty over Hong Kong was clarified from 1997, the left organized itself with the conservative business elites to limit the influence of the pro-democracy camp and that of the United Kingdom of ceded Hong Kong in the sense of the government of the People's Republic of China.
After the handover of Hong Kong to China and the establishment of the Special Administrative Region , the pro-Beijing camp developed into a supporter of the Hong Kong government, which was de facto set up by the government of the People's Republic of China and took control of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong , whose chairman has been the Belonged to pro-Beijing camp. This was facilitated, among other things, by the introduction of functional constituencies ( German functional constituencies ), as the members of the Legislative Council are elected indirectly in these . With 42 out of 70 seats in the Legislative Council, the pro-Beijing camp currently has a clear majority over the pro-democracy camp, the localists and the independents . In addition, 298 of the 431 seats in the District Councils are in the hands of the pro-Beijing camp and the current Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam , is a de facto member.
The pro-Beijing camp generally combines conservative values in political, social and economic issues with elements of Chinese nationalism or " patriotism ".
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Individual evidence
- ^ Lee, Eliza Wing-Yee: Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy . UBC Press, 2011, pp. 71 .
- ↑ a b 单 纬: 为 “反对派” 正名 之 “疑惑 篇” _ 大公 资讯 _ 大公 网. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Chan, Ming K .: The Challenge of the Reintegration with China . Hong Kong University Press, 1997, pp. 51 .