HK lawmaker-elect slams West for double standards

Brave Chan Yung, a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and lawmaker-elect, on Tuesday blasted the West for having double standards by smearing Hong Kong's just-concluded Legislative Council election and its political system.

He was responding to a joint statement issued by the Five Eyes Alliance– namely the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand - after the LegCo polls closed on Sunday.

Chan said Hong Kong's LegCo election has more balanced and wider representation than that of the West.

Their democracies are flawed, entailing social turbulence and populism while Hong Kong, with systematic improvement, has gone from chaos to stability where residents in the city need not worry about street violence, he said. He added the election was held in an orderly and rational fashion.

They are in no position to make such allegations against Hong Kong, he stressed.

The West is unwilling to give up on meddling with Hong Kong's affairs after the central government's latest moves – introducing a national security law for Hong Kong and improving Hong Kong's electoral system, has kept foreign proxies out of Hong Kong's system, he said.

That's why they came down hard on the city's election, Chan added.

"We won't interfere in their democratic process." Chan said. "We hope that they will do the same."