Liaison Office deputy head: Intention to overthrow means subversion

Ending the one-party system” is inappropriate in China under its legal framework, Zhang Rongshun, deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), has emphasized in a recent seminar.
He pointed out that it is stipulated in the Chinese Constitution that the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the foundational system of the country. It is, he said, completely different from the system in the Western world.
Zhang said that in Western countries, people can “sweep away” a political party from its governing state through elections. He stressed that adhering to the leadership of the CPC is “the Constitutional System” of the country, which has the “strongest legal bindings.”
The intention to overthrow CPC’s leadership is the intention to change the Constitutional System of the country, he said, which is thus an act of subversion of a political regime in legal sense.
“Many who have learned from the West think calling for an end to the one-party system or overthrowing the CPC [is acceptable],” Zhang said at the seminar. “It may be so in the West, but under the Constitutional System and framework of China, it is not [the case].”
On this ground, Zhang stressed that the CPC leadership, as a Constitutional System, must be respected, upheld and safeguarded across the country, including in the two SARs of Macau and Hong Kong.
He also pointed out that the leadership of the CPC is “inalienable” from the ‘One country, two systems’ principle. He said that only by upholding the CPC leadership can the persistence of the principle be ensured.
He added that the concept of not adhering to the CPC leadership while upholding the ‘One country, two systems’ Principle is “completely wrong.”
He also said that another false perspective is that the CPC leadership has nothing to do with Macau. This is an evasive attitude, he said. As the CPC leadership forms a Constitutional System, everything that has happened on the land called Macau since the establishment of the SAR is inseparable with the CPC leadership.
The Basic Law, he added, was compiled and promulgated under the leadership of the CPC. The stipulations within, Zhang pointed out, clearly state that while becoming an SAR, Macau is completely under the leadership of the Central People’s Government and the CPC. It is an essential component of the SAR’s constitutional order.

Three lawmakers praise centenary of CPC, call to end support to separatists

Lawmakers Ma Chi Seng, Wu Chou Kit, and Chan Wa Keong have jointly presented a spoken inquiry to the government calling for the revision of the Macau laws to shield Macau from any possibility of providing support to separatists.
The joint inquiry was delivered by Wu during the period before the agenda of the plenary session last Thursday, conscious of the nearing date of celebration for the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
According to the lawmakers, the local government must revise the local laws, “to prevent the entry of external forces in the MSAR and stop, with all efforts, support actions to separatists.”
Wu added the need to improve on information disclosure regarding national security laws to “prevent foreign forces [from taking] advantage of the MSAR for activities [that cause harm] against the mainland, stopping those conspiracies right from the start.”
In an intervention that calls on ultranationalism and on the pride of being Chinese, he added, “Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, today’s China is at the forefront of the world in terms of advanced technology, economic scale, and the ability to protect people’s lives and health. It has managed to free itself from the humiliations of a century ago and fulfill the wishes of the martyrs, of the heroes, and of the ancestors, who sacrificed and selflessly contributed to the revitalization of the Chinese nation.”
He added, “We should be proud to be Chinese! We Chinese cannot forget the history of China, which was invaded and intimidated by Western powers.”
Although the unusual speech caused visible surprise in the faces of several lawmakers, none of them have made any further comment on the matter. RM