Hong Konger Front Explained

Hong Konger Front (Chinese: t=我是香港人連線|l=I am a Hongkonger Connection) is a bilingual website founded in 2004 to advocate Hong Kong's gaining independence from China and building the Republic of Hong Kong. The website was covered by media conveying condemnation from both China and Hong Kong's pro-Beijing politicians.^{[1] [2] [3]}

In the beginning, its call for Hong Kong independence was not echoed^[4] by Hong Kong's localist groups, not to mention moderate democrats who preferred waiting for One country, two systems and universal suffrage, both promised by Beijing years before the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong and enshrined in the Basic Law (constitution) of Hong Kong.

Unlike the other Hong Kong pro-independence groups, Hong Konger Front goes further to support the separation of Inner Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet,^[5] Xinjiang, and China's southern, eastern and northeast provinces from the People's Republic of China, as shown in a map on its website.

See also

• Hong Kong Basic Law Article 45

External links

• Hong Konger Front website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tung issues caution over referendum on elections - Taipei Times. www.taipeitimes.com.
2. Web site: Asia Pacific Media Network :: Story, Print Version. https://web.archive.org/web/20050215214319/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/print.asp?parentid=20474. dead. February 15, 2005. February 15, 2005.
3. Web site: HKAM no better than HIM - Views - China Daily Asia. www.chinadailyasia.com.
4. Book: Although Hong Konger Front is the first group describing the 1997 Handover as the Chinese annexation of Hong Kong and calling for Hongkongers' self-determination, the radical group found no echo with the Hong Kong community. It was not until 2011 that the idea of Hong Kong self-determination and independence emerged as a topic among Hong Kong's emerging localist groups. 9789570844818. 思想編輯委員會. 2014-10-28.
5. Web site: UNPO: March for Tibet's Independence to reach New York. unpo.org.