Originally posted on July 5, 2019.
Continuing from the previous chapter, this piece reveals how Hong Kong had long served Chinese Communist Party elites as a base for money laundering and illicit enrichment, while arguing that the United States, Britain, and Europe have now entered a phase in which they will no longer leave the Hong Kong issue untouched.
Through the actions and statements of Chris Patten, Mike Pompeo, European governments, Nancy Pelosi, Agnes Chow, and others, it portrays the reality that the Chinese Communist Party regime, having abused “one country, two systems,” is being driven into complete isolation by the international community.

2019-07-05
In stark contrast to the suffocating pressure felt by ordinary Hong Kong residents, for some of those in power, Hong Kong under “one country, two systems” had long been an extraordinarily attractive place.

The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The United States and Britain will not leave it alone.　
In stark contrast to the suffocating pressure felt by ordinary Hong Kong residents, for some of those in power, Hong Kong under “one country, two systems” had long been an extraordinarily attractive place.　
Why?
Because Hong Kong, even in decline, is still Hong Kong.
It has trade connections with all parts of the world, and functions as a global financial center, a logistics hub, and the world’s largest offshore renminbi center.
From November 2014, mutual access between the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets also began.
With the birth of one giant Chinese stock market, the so-called “gambling den” called Central, with ordinary people absent from it, gained further momentum.　
Communist Party cadres used relatives and political-business operators to launder renminbi that had been illicitly taken out, washing it through Macau casinos, moving the money to Hong Kong, converting it into Hong Kong dollars, or transferring it into paper companies established in tax havens, thereby turning Hong Kong into a base for money laundering and illicit enrichment.　
In short, Hong Kong has its own unique advantages and an important role.
Since the Deng Xiaoping era, China, having “stolen” the know-how from Britain, has abused the “two systems.”
In the end, the dark struggles of the underworld, which is inseparable from the Communist Party, also intensified.　
However, it can be said that the world’s view of China has changed by 180 degrees from what it was in 2014, when the Umbrella Revolution took place.
Beginning with Chris Patten, the last Governor of Hong Kong, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the foreign ministers of Britain and Germany, concerns were voiced at once.
It was also reported that the consuls general in Hong Kong of eleven European countries met Chief Executive Lam and lodged a formal protest.　
On the 12th, after many injuries had occurred, a spokesperson for the European External Action Service of the European Union, the equivalent of a foreign ministry, also issued a statement declaring that “the right to assemble peacefully and freely and to express opinions must be respected,” and that they “share the many concerns of the citizens of Hong Kong.”　
It is also still fresh in memory that five years ago, during the Umbrella Revolution, a British member of Parliament who said that “there is a responsibility to uphold the principles of the Sino-British Joint Declaration,” and expressed the view that “if we say nothing about the weakening of Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy, we will be complicit in driving Hong Kong into decline,” was denied a visa to visit China, and a planned trip to China by a cross-party delegation was cancelled.　
In short, it is not only Hong Kong residents whose anger has reached the boiling point.
The main stronghold is Britain, which “handed Hong Kong back to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Its lawmakers must also have been waiting for an opportunity for revenge.
And the Trump administration, which has positioned the Chinese Communist Party as the enemy in order to defend freedom and democracy, is taking the lead.
At a press conference on the 12th, Morgan Ortagus, spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, expressed understanding for the actions of the young people, saying that “they are protesting because they do not want to fall under China’s control when it comes to fundamental rights.”
Agnes Chow, who had been a student leader in the Umbrella Revolution, appealed in a lecture at Meiji University, saying, “I want the Japanese government and Japanese politicians also to clearly show their intention to oppose the amendment bill.”　
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the Democratic Party also, in a statement on the 11th, called on the U.S. Congress to enact legislation to reevaluate whether Hong Kong possesses sufficient autonomy under the framework of “one country, two systems.”
She said she was eagerly awaiting the submission within a few days of this bill, called the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.”　
The political and diplomatic pressure from the Western countries is being directed at the Chinese Communist Party government, which has thoroughly abused the “two systems” arrangement and turned it into a place for illicit enrichment and money laundering.　
The top leadership of the Xi regime is no longer of one mind.
In other words, Xi Jinping’s China has been driven into complete isolation from the world.