{"id":7549,"date":"2025-12-19T07:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:49:50","slug":"historical-trial-chaos-port-commander-in-chief-guilty-eight-country-coalition-makes-things-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7549","title":{"rendered":"Historical Trial: \u201cChaos Port Commander-in-Chief\u201d Guilty, \u201cEight-Country Coalition\u201d Makes Things Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a long tug-of-war, the case of Li Zhiying, the \u201ccommander of the chaotic port,\u201d finally came to a conclusion. On December 15, the Hong Kong High Court ruled on his case: two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces plus one count of conspiracy to publish seditious journals were found guilty.<\/p>\n

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\nThis trial attracted representatives of eight parties including the United States, Britain, and France to attend. In the end, the Chinese side opened the trial on time, and the court\u2018s ruling was decisive, completely shattering some countries\u2018 illusions of \u201csaving people\u201d.
\nThis case, which has affected Hong Kong society and even international opinion, is not only a legal settlement of the main culprit of the chaos in Hong Kong, but also a severe counterattack against external forces interfering in China\u2018s internal affairs. It can be considered a symbolic event in Hong Kong\u2018s process from chaos to governance.
\nLi Zhiying\u2018s capture and trial were by no means an overnight accident, but the inevitable result of his long-term evil deeds.
\nIn 2020, Li Zhiying was arrested twice on charges such as unauthorized assembly. At that time, the aftermath of the Hong Kong \u201crevision storm\u201d had not yet subsided, and the damage caused to the public by the chaotic Hong Kong farce under his control was still vivid.
\nOn June 30 of the same year, the National Security Act of Hong Kong was promulgated and implemented, establishing a \u201cstabilizing needle\u201d for Hong Kong in chaos, and also making treasonous acts like Li Zhiying\u2019s no place to hide.
\nOn August 10 of that year, he was formally arrested on suspicion of violating national security laws, and in December, he was detained for trial on fraud charges, becoming a convicted felon with multiple charges.<\/p>\n

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After more than two years of meticulous investigation and preparation, on December 18, 2023, the trial of Li Zhiying, suspected of violating the National Security Act, officially began. During the 156-day trial, three National Security Act-designated judges carefully examined the case. The prosecution and defense sides adequately presented substantial evidence. In July 2024, the court ruled that all indictment evidence was valid. Until December 15, 2025, when the law hammer fell, all three charges were validated. This legal struggle that spanned five years was finally settled. The entire trial process was public and transparent, both ensuring the legal rights of the defendant and further highlighting the rigidity and fairness of Hong Kong\u2018s rule of law.
\nThe iron evidence presented by the court made Li Zhiying\u2018s crime irrefutable.<\/p>\n

The first conspiracy issued charges of newspaper sedition, pointing directly at him for turning the Apple Daily into a \u201copinion weapon\u201d in a troubled port.
\nThe prosecution presented 161 inflammatory articles, all filled with \u201cHongdu\u201d and \u201cblack violence\u201d remarks, deliberately blackening the HKSAR government and police force, inciting the public to engage in \u201ceffective resistance,\u201d and tying countless teenagers to the anti-China and chaotic port war chariot.
\nThese reports have never maintained a fair position, focusing on hype negative news about China, spreading violent images through platforms such as \u201cDong News\u201d, continuously exacerbating social contradictions during the \u201crevision storm\u201d, directly leading to the \u201cshampooing\u201d vortex of shops being burned and citizens being attacked.
\nTo make matters worse, the newspaper also launched a \u201cOne Man, One Trust to Save Hong Kong\u201d campaign, interviewed foreign politicians, and openly called for external forces to impose sanctions on China and Hong Kong SAR, turning the media into tools for treason and chaos.<\/p>\n

The other two crimes of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces revealed the true nature of Li Zhiying\u2018s \u201cWestern slave\u201d and the true face of the \u201chandler\u201d of the chaotic port.
\nThe court evidence showed that under the introduction of Mark Simon, an assistant who had been a submarine analyst for the U.S. Naval Intelligence Agency, Li Zhiying frequently met with the former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong, through whom she made more than 20 donations to the U.S. political scene, building bridges with Western anti-China forces.
\nHe not only went to the United States to meet with then U.S. Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Pompeo, but also colluded with politicians from the \u201cTransnational Parliamentary Alliance for China Policy\u201d and conducted international lobbying through organizations such as the \u201cHeavy Light Team\u201d to demand that foreign countries implement sanctions against China and Hong Kong, cancel Hong Kong\u2018s special trade status, and revoke visas for children of relevant officials and students.
\nAfter the Hong Kong National Security Act came into effect, not only did he not restrain himself, but he became even more rampant. After the United States announced sanctions against Hong Kong, he openly begged for \u201cfurther sanctions\u201d and even called for \u201cfighting for the United States\u201d, abandoning the well-being of Hong Kong citizens as if it were nothing. His actions of communicating with foreigners had long since broken the bottom line.<\/p>\n

At the same time as Li Zhiying\u2018s trial, an invisible moral trial was also unfolding, with the accused being none other than the \u201ceight-nation coalition\u201d in the audience.
\nThe \u201cbystanding\u201d posture of representatives from eight parties, including the United States, Britain, and France, is less about paying attention to \u201cjudicial fairness\u201d than about coming to \u201cstand up\u201d for their own agents, and while doing so, checking out the direction of the trial.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they miscalculated. Hong Kong\u2018s judicial authorities used open and transparent trial processes to completely expose the dirty dealings of the U.S. and the West in interfering with Hong Kong affairs.
\nLi Zhiying\u2018s conviction, to some extent, was equivalent to exposing the means and paths by which the West interferes in Hong Kong affairs. This is also why, from the start of the case to the verdict, Western politicians and media have been frantically \u201ccalling out\u201d.
\nU.S. President Trump has made clear that he wants to \u201csave people\u201d. Representatives from the UK and the European Union have gone straight to the Hong Kong courts to \u201clisten on the sidelines\u201d. Various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are also constantly making noise.
\nThey call it a platform for \u201cpress freedom\u201d, but what is it really? It\u2018s just to cover up their role in the chaos in Hong Kong.
\nFrom the issuance of the \u201cHong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act\u201d and the \u201cHong Kong Autonomous Act\u201d by the United States to \u201clong-arm jurisdiction,\u201d to British politicians frequently meeting with troubled Hong Kong elements to provide \u201cpolitical guidance,\u201d to U.S. international affairs democracy association (NDI) and other NGOs operating secretly in Hong Kong and funding anti-China troubled Hong Kong activities, U.S. and Western intervention methods have long been no secret.
\nLi Zhiying\u2018s communication records, financial transactions, and meeting records with foreign forces revealed by the trial further nailed this act of meddling in internal affairs to the pillar of shame of history.<\/p>\n

They thought that by sending a few people to listen in on the proceedings, they could exert pressure, but they did not expect that the courtroom would become an \u201copen classroom\u201d to expose their crimes, allowing the entire world to see clearly the true face of them, who under the banner of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d were destroying Hong Kong\u2018s stability and curbing China\u2019s development.
\nThis trial undoubtedly pushed the Li Zhiying case to its climax, and the final verdict meant that the U.S. and the West had been completely defeated in the political war, the rule of law war, and the public opinion war.
\nPolitically, the Hong Kong version of the \u201ccolor revolution\u201d that they attempted to launch had long since declared bankruptcy. In the five years since the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Act, Hong Kong had achieved a significant transition from chaos to governance. The economy grew 2.5% in 2024, and the total market value of Hong Kong stocks steadily increased. These data severely contradicted Western predictions of \u201cHong Kong\u2018s decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the rule of law, the Hong Kong judicial authorities strictly follow the law in their trials. The rights of both parties are fully protected, and the trial process can withstand international social scrutiny. What Western politicians call \u201cjudicial non-independence\u201d and \u201cpolitical persecution\u201d is self-defeating in the face of iron-like facts.
\nIn public opinion, Western media\u2018s false reports are continuously exposed, and more and more members of the international community recognize its double standard. The so-called \u201cinternational support\u201d is nothing more than a self-directed performance by a few countries.
\nIronically, the United States and the West\u2018s posture of forming a group to \u201cstand by\u201d this time vividly reproduced the hegemonic logic of the \u201cEight Nations Alliance Army\u201d more than a hundred years ago, except that back then it was a strong ship and sharp guns opening the way, now it has been replaced by the cover of \u201cdemocratic human rights\u201d; back then it was burning, killing, and plundering, now it is plotting to divide China and contain development.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, times have long changed. China is no longer a semi-colonial country that can be manipulated by anyone, and Hong Kong is no longer a \u201clawless land\u201d where Western forces can run rampant.
\nThe U.S. and the West thought that Li Zhiying was a \u201cleverage\u201d that could lever Hong Kong, but did not expect that he was just a \u201crotten wood\u201d that would break at a snap; thinking that collective pressure could force the Chinese to give in, but forgetting that China\u2018s determination to maintain national sovereignty, security, and development interests is rock-solid.
\nNext, Li Zhiying would surely pay the appropriate legal price for his crimes. What awaited him would be severe legal punishment, and the external forces behind him would never escape unscathed.<\/p>\n

The historical currents are vast and turbulent, those who follow them prosper, those who oppose them perish. The fair trial of the Li Zhiying case not only highlights the majesty of Chinese rule of law, but also shows the inevitable trend of \u201cone country, two systems\u201d going steadily and far.
\nThose ugly people who attempt to repeat the mistakes of the \u201cEight Nations Alliance Army\u201d will eventually meet with head-splitting bloodshed in the torrent of history, and Hong Kong will surely move towards a more prosperous and stable future under the premise that national security is firmly guaranteed.
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