What Lord Reed meant was after HK passing the homeland security law, they could no longer serve UK’s interest in HK 里德勳爵的意思是,在香港通過國土安全法後,他們不能再為英國在香港的利益服務
Lord Reed, as one of the most respectable and senior judges, must be extremely careful about the wordings of his announcement. He says ” The courts in Hong Kong continue to be internationally respected for their commitment to the rule of law” before saying his resignation, and it’s a clear message from him that the resignation is not due to problem of the HK judicial system.
If one reads Lord Reed’s resignation announcement carefully, one would get the impression that the resignation is a (wholly or partly) political decision in the national interest of the UK rather than the judges’ assessment of HK’s judicial system. Is it a reflection that the UK’s administration is unduly influencing the independence of the UK’s judges or judicial system?
A statement from Lord Reed, President of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Reed of Allermuir
Wednesday 30 March 2022 Further to my statement of 27 August 2021, I have been closely monitoring and assessing developments in Hong Kong, in discussion with the government.
The judges of the Supreme Court and its predecessor, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, have sat on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (HKCFA) for many years in fulfilment of the obligations undertaken by the government towards Hong Kong in 1997. They have done so with the support of the government, and in the light of the government’s assessment that their participation in the HKCFA was in the UK’s national interests. However, since the introduction of the Hong Kong national security law in 2020, this position has become increasingly finely balanced.
The courts in Hong Kong continue to be internationally respected for their commitment to the rule of law. Nevertheless, I have concluded, in agreement with the government, that the judges of the Supreme Court cannot continue to sit in Hong Kong without appearing to endorse an administration which has departed from values of political freedom, and freedom of expression, to which the Justices of the Supreme Court are deeply committed.
Lord Hodge and I have accordingly submitted our resignations as non-permanent judges of the HKCFA with immediate effect.
The UK has found Hong Kong’s political and legal system to have deteriorated beyond an acceptable point for British judges to sit on the city’s top appeal court, the country’s foreign minister has said in her report, you be the judge.
Sending China back to the Stone Age! Caitlin Johnstone: US Empire’s ultimate target is not Russia but China. 把中國送回石器時代!美帝國的最終目標不是俄羅斯,而是中國
“We, together with you, and with our sympathisers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order,” Lavrov said to the Chinese government on Wednesday.
And that right there ladies and gentlemen is the real reason we’ve been hearing so much hysterical shrieking about Russia these last five or six years. It’s never been about Russian hackers. Nor about a Kremlin pee pee tape. Nor about Trump Tower. Nor about GRU bounties in Afghanistan. Nor about Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Papadopoulos or any other Russiagate Surname of the Week. It’s not even actually about Ukraine. Those have all been narrative-shaping constructs manipulated by the US intelligence cartel to manufacture support for a final showdown against Russia and China to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world.
The US government has had a policy in place since the fall of the Soviet Union to prevent the rise of any powers which could challenge its imperial agendas for the world. During the (first) Cold War the strategy promoted by empire managers like Henry Kissinger was to court China out of necessity to pull it away from the USSR, which was when we saw business ties between China and the US lead to immense profits for certain individuals in both nations and the influx of wealth which now has China on track to surpass the US as an economic superpower.
Basically all we’re looking at in the major international news stories of our time is the rise of a multipolar world crashing headlong into an empire which has espoused the belief that unipolar domination must be retained at all cost, even if it means flirting with the possibility of a very fast and radioactive third world war.
This is the Hail Mary pass of the US hegemon. Its last-ditch effort to secure control before forever losing any chance at it. Many anti-imperialist pundits I read regularly seem quite confident that this effort will fail, while I personally think those forecasts may be a bit premature. The way the chess pieces are moving it definitely does look like there’s a plan in place, and I don’t think they’d be orchestrating that plan if they didn’t believe it had a chance to succeed.
One thing that does seem clear is that the only way the empire has any chance of stopping the rise of China is by maneuvers that will be both highly disruptive and existentially dangerous for the entire world. If you think things are crazy now, just you wait until the imperial crosshairs move to Beijing.
If any country wants to avoid the US and European Financial Surveillance, what alternative systems available for them? There are a couple of systems emerging where Central Banks, corporations and other Financial Institutions can use : 1st one is SPFS – Russian alternative to SWIFT and CHIPS which provides messaging, clearing and settlement services for cross border transactions. And another one CIPS – China’s alternative to SWIFT and CHIPS.