(Translated by Chapman Chen)
After the Occupy Movement, Andy Tsang Wai-hung, Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force, announced that the Hong Kong Police will complete the investigation concerned within three months and arrest all major and minor leaders of the Movement. On 5th January this year, they began to call up key activists of the occupation movement and “invite” them to help with the probe, claiming that they will then be arrested. Apart from senior members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), Scholarism, and political parties of pan-democrats, Organised Crime and Triad Bureau also phoned the scholar-critic, Dr. Wan Chin, on the morning of 6th January, and “invited” him to go to Wan Chai Police Station and to assist in the investigations at 4:30 pm on 19th January.
This incident shows that the Hong Kong Police and the Hong Kong Government has formally declared war on the Localist Movement as headed by Dr. Wan Chin. Chin is well-known for his work, A Theory of Hong Kong City-state, and his Facebook posts. The localist movement and localist discourse has stimulated wide discussions among Hongkongers and triggered off vociferous criticisms from pan-democrats. Mainstream mass media also either overtly or covertly block localist voices.
Dr. Wan Chin has only appeared in person in the occupied regions a couple of times, quite different from leaders of HKFS, Scholarism, and pan-democrats. On those occasions, Chin mostly made public speeches and advised the public as to how to cope with emergencies. Chin has always focused on “propagation of theories” and is therefore satirically nicknamed by his opponents “keyboard fighter”. The OCTB’s announcing in advance the arrest of Chin indicates that the localist movement as led by Chin has already risen to the surface and become the target of suppression by the punitive apparatus of Communist China.
Clip of Wan Chin’s Public Speech in Mongkok (11 October 2014)：
