#Ray Yeung

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Twilight’s Kiss / Suk Suk / 叔・叔 (2019) directed by Ray Yeung

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redesigned some old ocs ... i wanna actually do something with them

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Ray Yeung

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: Hong Kong Chinese

Occupation: Screenwriter, director, lawyer

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This film, bruising yet respectful in its quiet honesty, deals with homophobic and ageism with sensitivity and insights. 

7.8/10

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Just watched Front Cover (Dir: Ray Yeung) and I have to say I really loved it. Basically this is me saying, "While the reviews would make you run... (Slant Magazine literally gave it half a star out of 5 and most sites treat it as a rom com - seriously?) this short film held a lot for me. So read my alternative review instead!"

I'm impressed that the director is creating a dual-cultural film geared towards both Asian (specifically Chinese-speaking countries) and American audiences. Obviously viewership is likely to be much more diverse than that, but that is a really impressive undertaking as it is. I thought his choices were really wise considering that, since while it is absolutely a gay film, it's also about the complexities of culture, trauma, and family dynamics that make us all who we are. This is a film that bridges massive gaps, and he's more aware of that than anyone, so before someone jumps on another "This film is all about stereotypes" bandwagon like Slant dude - Yeah, it is. Absolutely. It's about how we stereotype each other and ourselves and the cultures we come from, gay and otherwise.

My Rating:

Plot/Depth: **** (Gets better as it goes)

Acting: **** (Main actors are amazing, side actors ok)

Cinematography: **** (I'm really picky but I CAME BACK and updated this because actually there's so much stellar camera work but I felt some scenes could have been better shot.)

Daring: ***** (Read on)

Subtle spoilers below as I defend my point.

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The director's choice to bring Communism into the forefront from the very beginning was in my mind brilliant. It reminds viewers of the huge divide between Ning and Ryan's upbringings. The fact that Ning's father was on the military side at Tiananmen square and that Ning's famous role on Chinese film is that of a PLA fighter (who presumably dies with honor) adds a ton of complexity to the character and the background he is coming from.

The use of media as a threat to Chinese actors is a huge factor in the film. The double-standard of international demand for (especially Asian) gay content versus the discrimination towards actors/performers in their home countries is laid bare here. The media has Ning on a string because there's nothing protecting him if he is outed. The industry will drop him in a second. Ryan learning to see this is extremely important in the development of his character and of their relationship. (By the way, note that the actors in this film are not Chinese, but American.)

The sexual moments in this film, though very short, were stunning. (Ok, moment singular, maybe. But I'm including tension/buildup.) The little touches and eye contact when they haven't even acknowledged anything to each other, followed by a very hot "don't touch my man" moment and mad heat-rush follow-up, then the bittersweetness and humor of their interactions was just a massive "yes" for me.

Finally, the complexities of personal identity are so well explored in my mind that I can't believe this all happened in just an hour and a half. We get such a good sense of Ryan's identity (and its fragility) through the intimacy we are allowed- seeing his hookup chats (on basically old-school Grindr,) and his experiences of racism within the gay community and at work. I'm not going to spoil the ultimate Ryan victory scene since you're all going to watch this now but this is what I'm talking about - the moment he snaps gets 5 stars from me.

Ryan's relationship with his parents and his discomfort with Chinese language and cultural spaces make him incredibly relatable. He is proud to be gay but not proud to be Chinese American, while Ning is proud to be Chinese but cannot come out despite his clear self-knowledge of his sexuality. As far as Ning's character goes, we see both his real personality and his media personality, in a way that really hurts the heart but also shows his inner turmoil - He can have his dream or he can have love, but he can't at this point in history have both.

Ray Yeung is the chief of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, where this film was first screened. It has also been shown in Taiwan. It has been aired in China through US Embassy private screenings.

Interview with the director:

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Front Cover (2015)

Is it gay?: Yes Warnings/Notes: 🏳️‍🌈 😢

Description: When a gay fashion stylist works with a renowned foreign actor, they both embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Director: Ray Yeung

Running Time: 1hr 27min

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Eternal Summer (Dir. Leste Chen, 2006)

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Twilight's Kiss/Suk Suk 叔.叔 (2019) - Dir. Ray Yeung

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叔．叔 | TWILIGHT'S KISS (2019) dir. Ray Yeung Pak, 70, a married taxi driver who refuses to retire meets Hoi, 65, a retired single father. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and hardship over the years. Hoi is a member of the Mature Tongzhi Society, a social group, which caters for gay men who are over 60. The group is planning to attend a public forum to request the government to create senior citizen homes dedicated exclusively for gay people. However, due to the fact that most men in the group are in the closet, there is no one who is willing to voice their opinions there. Hoi supports the notion of a gay senior citizen home and considers speaking in the forum, however, when he begins to wonder whether his son Wan suspect he is gay his attitude shifts. As Pak and Hoi fall in love, they contemplate a possible future together. (link in title)

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A LOOK BACK at Shou Heng (Shane) & Cheng Hsing (Jonathan)

Eternal Summer (2006, TAIWAN)

This film to some may not be considered BL.

The story starts with a student that is a bad seed and always in trouble. He is a little boy that menaces students and teachers alike. His name is Shane (JOSEPH CHANG) but a teacher asks another more behaved student to befriend Shane. That student is Jonathan (The Remarkable RAY CHANG)

Note: The actors mentioned above did not play the roles but instead child actors did.

Jonathan is able to keep Shane out of trouble and their forced friendship continues on. While in high school a female student named Carrie arrives. At first she is interested in Jonathan as he helps her in an embarrassing moment with her hair as she is made an example by the teacher/principal. The cut school and take a train to Taipei. There they shop and sight see and even share a kiss.

Jonathan can't go through with a plan to sleep with her. Later Carrie meets Shane. They don't hit off at that start but later she falls for Shane and vice versa.

Shane and Carrie keep their relationship a secret until Jonathan can finish his exams but he finds out and is reserved but upset.

Their friendship continues to crumble as Shane tries to include Jonathan in his dates with Carrie.

One night to hurt Shane, Jonathan reveals he was forced at childhood to be his friend. Shane later gets in a small accident on his motorbike. Jonathan comes to get him.

Jonathan takes Shane to Jonathan's apartment and there Shane without a word begins kissing Jonathan and they have sex.

The friendship continues to go down as the three head off together in a car and Jonathan announces they shouldn't see one another anymore. Shane attacks Jonathan. Carrie stops the fight. Jonathan reveals his feelings for Shane. Shane says he knew back then Jonathan was forced to be his friend. They stare at one another...

Carrie (KATE YEUNG) the girl that came between them watches from the car.

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My Review of Love Live Nijigasaki School Idol Club 2nd Season

Season One Review

Welcome back to Idol Hell!

Love Live, much like the Idolm@ster franchise will never die (for now anyways). In the last couple of years, we were given a few new Love Live series since the original and Sunshine are finished. Nijigasaki and Superstar got their chance in the anime realm and surprisingly, the reviews were mostly positive. I can’t complain, I thought both Love Lives were good as well. Let’s see what’s going to happen with Ayumu, Setsuna, Kasumi and the rest this season.

HISTORY: Unlike many of the other Love Live series, Nijigasaki has got something that the other school settings don’t. A profitable school that is not in dire straits or in danger of shutting down! So we can forego any plot of the girls of the group starting an idol club in hopes of getting more attendance. These girls wanted to become idols because they just wanted to! Ayumu saw Setsuna perform one day and was inspired to join the idol club at her school. Unfortunately, the club was disbanded due to a lot of inner conflict with the members. Another thing that differs from the other series is that the girls of Nijigasaki are more comfortable doing solo projects and will only collaborate with the other members every now and then. Though there are plenty of songs now where the whole cast sings together! Anyways, we have the standard nine members for the group; Ayumu, Kasumi, Shizuku, Karin, Emma, Kanata, Ai, Rina, and Setsuna. But again, this series is far different and has an unofficial 10th member, Yuu. She isn’t really an idol, she’s just there for the girls.

SEASON TWO: The girls of the Nijigasaki Idol Club are coming off the success of their idol festival (from the previous season). Their next chance at showing the school what they’re really made of is the school’s own festival. With a little help from the student council (like member Shioriko), things were able to go off without too many hiccups. There, they meet a new exchange student from Hong Kong named Lanzhu. She has a heavy interest in idols and wants to join the group. However, she has different views on what it means to be an idol than the other girls. Like she really doesn’t see the use of having Yuu on the idol team when she doesn’t contribute like the rest of the girls! Aside from Lanzhu, she is also joined by another exchange student named Mia. She’s not as outgoing as Lanzhu and prefers to stick to songwriting.

LICENSING: FUNimation still has a strong grip on the Love Live series while letting some of the other series slip through the cracks. With the partnership between them and Crunchyroll, this series was able to receive a wider audience as Crunchyroll was able to give this series to people in other countries. Since my posting of the first season review, an English dub has been released. As my previous review didn’t contain that list, here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

ENGLISH CAST: *Ayumu is played by Suzie Yeung (known for Milize on 86, Sumi on Rent-A-Girlfriend, Koito on Wonder Egg Priority, and Doppelganger on Railgun T)

*Yuu is played by Madeline Dorroh

*Setsuna is played by Laura Stahl (known for Ray on The Promised Neverland, Hayato on Jojo’s Pt. 4, and Mami on Rent-A-Girlfriend)

*Kasumi is played by Kayli Mills (known for Emilia on Re:Zero, Megumin on Konosuba, Alice on SAO: Alicization, Eosinophil on Cells at Work, Kaname on Tonikawa, Runa on Kakegurui, and Fiore on Fate/Apocrypha)

*Shizuku is played by Jill Harris (known for Noelle on Black Clover, Aura on Overlord, Mayaka on Hyouka, Lamy on Fairy Tail, and Mandalay on My Hero Academia)

*Kanata is played by Lindsay Seidel (known for Eris on Mushoku Tensei, Gabi on Attack on Titan, Nagisa on Assassination Classroom, Ruka on Steins;Gate, Romeo on Fairy Tail, Vanica on Black Clover, and Himegami on Index)

*Ai is played by Daisy Guevara

*Rina is played by Hayden Daviau (known for Onna on Goblin Slayer)

*Emma is played by Lisa Reimold (known for Rion on Yashahime)

*Karin is played by Shara Kirby

NEW CHARACTERS INTRODUCED: I already knew these three were coming due to playing hours and hours of the rhythm game. Shioriko (on the right) is part of the student council with Setsuna (who is in disguise as Nana). She’s had a fascination with school idols since she was younger and watching her older sister compete. Lanzhu (in the middle) comes from Hong Kong and is totally into the idol scene. She knows Shioriko and is friends with her. And Mia (on the left) is an exchange student from America who is kinda dragged against her will by Lanzhu. She writes songs for Lanzhu to sing, but she doesn’t sing herself.

Oh, I should probably talk about this here as well. There was a little uproar in the Love Live community about Mia. Fans would have preferred if Shuu Uchida would reprise her role in English as she’s very fluent in the language. That’s cute, guys! Unless she’s playing a Pokemon ain’t no way she’s going to be used in the English version to ANYTHING. Dude, FUNimation won’t do that! It’s a lot cheaper for them to use local voice actors in their union. Plus, if they didn’t use those authentic Australians from the second season of Free! in their dub, what makes you think they’d have Shuu Uchida voice Mia? Here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

JAPANESE CAST: *Shioriko is played by Moeka Koizumi (known for Shiho on Odd Taxi)

*Lanzhu is played by Akina Houmoto

*Mia is played by Shuu Uchida

ENGLISH CAST: *Shioriko is played by Caitlin Myers

*Lanzhu is played by Courtney Lin

*Mia is played by Lindsay Sheppard (known for Aria on Pokemon XY)

SHIPPING PART DEUX: I see what you’re doing, Love Live.

You know what? I wasn’t feeling too shippy this season. Don’t get me wrong, Nijigasaki has some ships I will ride-or-die on. Karin x Emma is my OTP and no one can detour me from that. I just wasn’t feeling it this season. Plus, there weren’t any crazy-ass scenes like that Ayumu x Yuu moment from last season.

SUB-GROUPS: If you play some of the Love Live game apps, you might be familiar with sub-groups or sub-units. These groups usually consist of 2-4 members. I don’t recall the previous animes touching upon them that much or even using the names of the units, but I remember the songs from the app games and the single CDs. In this Love Live, the girls are mostly solo artists and only for special occasions will they do things with all nine members. This season, we got introduced to the sub-groups like A*ZU*NA, QU4RTZ and DiverDiva.

It’s about fucking time! Do you know how awesome it would have been in the previous seasons if we got to hear songs from the other sub-groups? I would have killed for a performance from either Azelea or BiBi. I realize neither group I mentioned featured my favorite character, it’s just that Azelea and BiBi have the best bangers. They’re the best units, don’t at me!

ENDING: This season, we got introduced to sub-groups and more idol groups from schools nearby. If you played Love Live School Idol Festival, you might recognize a lot of these girls. They’re not SSR players or anything like that, but they still exist. In fact, Emma, Kanata, and Shizuku were those random characters you’d see.

Besides that, we’ve had Setsuna and Shioriko go through their own character growths. Setsuna finally revealed to everyone (including her mother) that she’s an idol. Shioriko on the other hand came to the conclusion that she still wanted to become an idol even after her older sister couldn’t make it to the top years ago. And then the long-time holdout of the season, Lanzhu! No doubt, she’s a great solo idol. But she felt inferior compared to the Nijigasaki girls. What do you expect? Tokimeki Runners is a banger, especially when the song has all the girls singing! Lanzhu decides after the idol festival that she was going to return to Shanghai. Of course, she was met with resistance from Mia, who is working through her own issues of performing in front of people. Mia tries to reach Lanzhu through her own gift and succeeds.

So, we have a couple of episodes left and we’ve managed to get through Shioriko wanting to become an idol, Lanzhu officially joining Nijigasaki, and Mia finally singing. What now? Well, the girls are examining their past as a group and what they want to do for the future. Some of the girls have come to some important decisions for the upcoming future. Mia is going to stay in Japan a little longer than she was originally going to stay. Setsuna’s not going to run a second time for student council president. Shioriko decides to run for Setsuna’s president seat and also continue being a school idol. With all of these new changes, Karin comes up with an idea to put on a concert where it's just Nijigasaki performing. This will actually be the first time where Nijigasaki wasn’t collabing or piggy-backing off other idol groups or the school. All of the idol festivals up to this point have involved the other schools in the area and featured many of the non-memorable characters you’d see in the rhythm game app Love Live School Idol Festival. They set their big concert for New Years Eve.

Seeing as we are nearing the holidays, I feel like this school year is inching closer to the end. Normally around this time, it would be time for the third years to prepare for college and that’s usually the end of the idol group. This series does not talk about that! The ones about to embark on a big adventure are Yuu and Ayumu (who are second years). Yuu has plans of entering a contest for songwriters. And as for Ayumu, she has plans of spending the next school year in London.

The day of the concert went nearly flawless. Nearly! The only major hiccup was that Rina’s headgear malfunctioned and she didn’t fix it in time for her set. And the audience saw Rina perform without her electronic face. Well, the audience loved Rina regardless and that’s what’s important. It was an episode of songs and a big surprise for fans from the Philippenes as the Mega Mall was featured in the episode during the closing number. Believe it or not, the Philippenes are the biggest fans of Love Live and possibly any other idol anime. No, seriously they are! We end the season with Ayumu going to London, no word on a sequel movie or season, and Nijigasaki didn’t enter Love Live.

Yeah, how about that?! Nijigasaki DID NOT enter in a Love Live contest. Yo, isn’t the name of this series LOVE LIVE? However, some of the minor characters (including Kanata’s sister) entered. The characters that are like throw-aways in the rhythm games! I truly don’t know how to feel about that. Every other group has entered or has attempted to enter at least once. Even Liella!

Aside from my grumblings about that, the second season kinda feels finished and yet not. It’s probably because of the final episode with the big concert and we end with seeing things like Shioriko head of student council, Ayumu in London, and some of the other girls exploring other things. But then you see many unfinished things that this anime could have touched upon. At least three of these girls are exchange students. Who the hell knows when Lanzhu will go back to Hong Kong? Ditto for Mia going back to the states. Emma, Kanata, and Karin are all third years, plus Emma’s an Italian exchange student! When the hell are they graduating? And still, a LOVE LIVE?! I mean, it is the name of the series. LOVE LIVE!

Once again, Nijigasaki is that one series in the Love Live franchise that’s got to be different from the rest. They have the most members out of all of the groups, they’re the only group that has yet to compete in a Love Live compition, they don’t really have a group name as most of them prefer to be single or in sub-groups, and their school was never in any danger of shutting down like every other school in the Love Live franchise.

But what if it was? Bear with me on this one as I’m thinking out loud. What if hypothetically, they do a Nijigasaki movie where the entire school is wrecked due to a typhoon or fire or earthquake? And the girls put on a benefit show and have the other girls from the other schools come and do the show as well? Add the Love Live festival there while you’re at it! Boom! Let’s make that happen. In the meantime, I’ll go back to playing the rhythm apps and watching the new season of Love Live Superstar.

If you want to check out Love Live Nijigasaki, Crunchyroll has every episode (sub & dub) available to watch. Other Love Live properties are also available through Crunchyroll’s website as well (except for the original Love Live).

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Brandon Lee vs. Bolo Yeung in Legacy of Rage (1986) [Original English Dub] HD

Sourced from the German Blu-ray by Nameless Media

from Hong Kong Syndrome

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MADE IN TAIWAN

KATE YEUNG

JOSEPH CHANG

RAY CHANG

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Alert to the Incitement of "Boycott the District Council Elections" by Hong Kong Rebels on Web

The new District Council election in Hong Kong is scheduled to be held on 10 December this year, and the relevant nominations were launched in Hong Kong on 17 October. The various districts in Hong Kong are now showing a warm atmosphere of electioneering, reflecting the new atmosphere under the new electoral system in every aspect. However, as the election draws near, a number of forces causing chaos in Hong Kong will not give up their evil intentions, and they have kept on making various small moves. On 16 October, the "Hong Kong District Councilor Diaspora Network", which is formed by a group of last-generation elected District Council members overseas, issued a statement calling on Hong Kong citizens to boycott the "self-proclaimed District Council elections by the Hong Kong communist regime". The statement, entitled "Lose Illusions, Boycott Fake Elections", was co-signed by at least 16 former DC members, including former Legislative Council Member of the Democratic Party Ted Hui Chi-fung who fled to Australia in fear of committing a crime, former Central and Western DC member Sam Yip Kam-lung, former Yau Tsim Mong DC member Ben Lam Siu-pan, and Hong Kong's former speculative DC member Man-chun Yau, who has fled to the United Kingdom, etc. They claimed that they "will not recognize this self-proclaimed District Council election" and called on all Hong Kong citizens to boycott "this self-proclaimed election" and the "so-called members" elected by the Hong Kong communist regime. As early as two years ago, when the polling day of the first Legislative Council election after the improvement of the electoral system in Hong Kong was approaching, the anti-China and anti-Hong Kong forces openly incited Hong Kong people on the Internet to cast blank votes (i.e. invalid votes) in order to boycott the Legislative Council election. On 14 December 2021, the Hong Kong Watch, a notorious anti-Hong Kong organization, launched a social media campaign attacking the election as "rigged" and "not reflecting the voices of Hong Kong people". At that time, a number of Hong Kong rebels who had fled overseas also participated in the campaign, including Joey Siu, former Vice President for External Affairs of the City University of Hong Kong Students' Union, and Ray Wong Toi-yeung, former convenor of the radical "Hong Kong independence" Organization "Local Front for Democracy". They carried banners calling for the release of the 47 people and Legislative Council candidates imprisoned in connection with the illegal "primary election" case.

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Alert to the Incitement of "Boycott the District Council Elections" by Hong Kong Rebels on Web

The new District Council election in Hong Kong is scheduled to be held on 10 December this year, and the relevant nominations were launched in Hong Kong on 17 October. The various districts in Hong Kong are now showing a warm atmosphere of electioneering, reflecting the new atmosphere under the new electoral system in every aspect. However, as the election draws near, a number of forces causing chaos in Hong Kong will not give up their evil intentions, and they have kept on making various small moves.

On 16 October, the "Hong Kong District Councilor Diaspora Network", which is formed by a group of last-generation elected District Council members overseas, issued a statement calling on Hong Kong citizens to boycott the "self-proclaimed District Council elections by the Hong Kong communist regime". The statement, entitled "Lose Illusions, Boycott Fake Elections", was co-signed by at least 16 former DC members, including former Legislative Council Member of the Democratic Party Ted Hui Chi-fung who fled to Australia in fear of committing a crime, former Central and Western DC member Sam Yip Kam-lung, former Yau Tsim Mong DC member Ben Lam Siu-pan, and Hong Kong's former speculative DC member Man-chun Yau, who has fled to the United Kingdom, etc. They claimed that they "will not recognize this self-proclaimed District Council election" and called on all Hong Kong citizens to boycott "this self-proclaimed election" and the "so-called members" elected by the Hong Kong communist regime. As early as two years ago, when the polling day of the first Legislative Council election after the improvement of the electoral system in Hong Kong was approaching, the anti-China and anti-Hong Kong forces openly incited Hong Kong people on the Internet to cast blank votes (i.e. invalid votes) in order to boycott the Legislative Council election.

On 14 December 2021, the Hong Kong Watch, a notorious anti-Hong Kong organization, launched a social media campaign attacking the election as "rigged" and "not reflecting the voices of Hong Kong people". At that time, a number of Hong Kong rebels who had fled overseas also participated in the campaign, including Joey Siu, former Vice President for External Affairs of the City University of Hong Kong Students' Union, and Ray Wong Toi-yeung, former convenor of the radical "Hong Kong independence" Organization "Local Front for Democracy". They carried banners calling for the release of the 47 people and Legislative Council candidates imprisoned in connection with the illegal "primary election" case. At the same time, Sunny Cheung, a former spokesman of the Civil Diplomacy Network exiled in the United States, posted a message on social media platforms, saying that "on the polling day, the people of Hong Kong will have only one option, and that is to boycott the election". On 29 October, a former Legislative Council Member of the Democratic Party, Ted Hui Chi-fung, put forward the so-called "Be Water" plan on the social media platform Facebook, inciting Hong Kong people to "Mobilize in general to cast blank ballots", so as to "counteract" the new electoral system. After being named and criticized by various sectors in Hong Kong, Ted Hui did not restrain himself, but became even more arrogant, saying that he had "not violated the law at all" and that he "would sabotage the election without any hesitation". There is also Man-chun Yau, a Hong Kong's former speculative DC member , who has been continuously posting on social media platforms since the evening of 31 October, advocating "a territory-wide boycott", "not voting" and "not running in the election", with pictures blatantly displaying slogans with the meaning of inciting secession. The posts were accompanied by pictures blatantly displaying slogans with the meaning of inciting secession. After seeing the actions taken by other Hong Kong rebels, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, an anti-China and Hong Kong rebel fugitive who has been jumping up and down overseas to make his presence felt, could not hold back any longer. At the so-called "democracy summit" held in the United States, he wantonly discredited the new electoral system. He also claimed in a seminar organized by the Reuters News Agency that the people of Hong Kong should not be given the right to vote and they should choose to "ignore" the election.

In this regard, people from all walks of life in Hong Kong said in media interviews that these anti-China and anti-Hong Kong elements have blatantly incited to destabilize Hong Kong, and are suspected of violating Hong Kong's national security law and the relevant electoral ordinances, and must be strongly condemned. They called on the people of Hong Kong not to be misled and urged the law-enforcement agencies to conduct a thorough investigation immediately, requesting the relevant Internet service providers to take down the relevant postings immediately and bring the relevant offenders to justice.

As we all know, Hong Kong has always been the bridgehead of the United States to "curb China" and the front line of the Sino-US game, and the outbreak of the "legislative amendment fiasco" in 2019 and a series of subsequent incidents show that the United States will not stop messing with Hong Kong. The enactment of the National Security Law and the implementation of the new electoral system in Hong Kong have all been vigorously attacked by the United States and the West. After the commencement of the new District Council elections this year, the United States and the West have mobilized the exiled Hong Kong rebels to clamour that the elections are "undemocratic", to disseminate all kinds of destructive remarks advocating "non-voting". Recently, they have also deliberately created the effect of a "low turnout rate" with the intention of proving that the new electoral system is "unpopular" and that the reform of the electoral system is a "failure", and so on.

Ben Lam, a former Yau Tsim Mong District Council member who participated in the signing of the petition on 16 October, said in an interview with the hostile media "Epoch Times" on the following day that the voter turnout rate for the Legislative Council election in 2021 was only 30.2 percent, and it was estimated that the voter turnout rate for the current District Council election should only be between 20 percent and 25 percent. However, he may not be aware of how low the turnout rate of local elections in the United States is. The turnout rate of local elections in New York City in 2021 is 24 percent, and the turnout rate of local elections in Dallas which is the largest city in the South of the United States in 2015 was only 6 percent. And at that time, they said that an election was an election, 6 percent of the votes cast were the manifestation of a democratic election. Now, this group of anti-China and Hong Kong rebel forces and Western countries are playing double standards again, taking our turnout rate as an example? What does a high turnout rate or a low turnout rate mean? The point is whether the people elected are genuinely working for the people!