China Bashings and I Got Bashed Too !

My wife, Kay,  has been a silent follower  of the Hong Kong free democracy movement and its many protests when these were first headlined internationally in early 2019. When these protests turned disruptive, she became quite a vocal supporter. I was pleasantly surprised by her new found interests in politics. I have known her to be apolitical since we got married in the mid-70's.

Save for the GE in 2018 and especially its outcome, even Malaysian politics never meant much to her let alone politics in faraway Hong Kong S.A.R. Hence, me and my euphoric surprise -  geopolitics too! Oh, I digressed.

Did my wife then  had an audience? Yes, my daughter and I.

When the protests up-ticked into violent confrontations between the protesters and the Hong Kong Police, my wife became agitatedly more vocal. She blamed the chaos as the direct consequence of the  incompetence of the CEO of the HK SAR at first and laterly the Beijing government. Mind you, she was real mad and had all the sympathies for the HK youthful protesters.

Trying to pacify her for the self-inflicted anger, I telephoned my graduate school's classmate Mike and asked for his personal views about the political unrests ruling in HK then. Mike nonchalantly said, "It is all about control." When pressed if he and family members were OK, he added, "Um... yes, it is still normal  for us here." My wife paid no heed to this ground zero HK citizen's defacto sitrep (situation report).

Mike was born and bred in HK and he retired as the MD of a midsized HK bank. Mike was also credited to be the first HK-banker that started PRC's first private commercial bank in Shanghai in the late-80's/early-90's. Mike told me then it was at the behest of China's then finance head honcho, Mr. Zhu Rongji.

When the deadly coronavirus or Wuhan Virus (later referred to as 'the Covib-19 virus" by the W.H.O.) first broke into the international news media, my wife became even more judgemental about the 'reported' goings-on in the world in general and in the People's Republic of China in particular.

Every morning she would switched on our television set (a Samsung smart-tv) and follow the latest "news" streaming out from Youtube's as well as specific websites she selected. These included main stream media organisations' as well as non-bona fide so-called news 'stations'. Save for a few HK-based Cantonese "stations" and almost without exception, all other 'stations' reported in English.

Each time she bounced off her remarks of displeasure about the Chinese Communist Party of the PRC, I reminded her that some would be no more than voices of China-bashing rhetoric. I added that these were likely drummed up by the Western Media in consonant with their political leaders'  anti-Communist stances.

OMG...! You know what?

I got bashed real good by my wife!

Why? Why and why my siding with things of and about the  PRC?

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