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long ago became an object of international scorn.
Although it is by now universally accepted, I would like to restate here an important principle, namely that the interests of a political party and the interests of the nation are by no means one and the same thing; neither should the security of a political party be confused with the security of the state as a whole; nor the reputation of a particular party be identified with that of the nation in general. If these things were indeed identical, then why would countries bother to have elections and periodically change their governments? I have never denied that my various speeches and activities while overseas may, indeed, have harmed the interests, security and prestige of the Chinese Communist Party. But they have certainly been in no way detrimental to the interest, security and prestige of my country.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security has accused me of wanting to return home this time in order to stir up trouble, claiming that there were clearly foreign forces hostile to China lurking in the background and that these hostile foreign forces had devised and manipulated my return as a political conspiracy against the government. In particular, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China has been singled out as being the "direct controller" of my plan to return. The plain fact remains, however, that the entire incident was prompted by my being seized in a hotel in China and forcibly expelled across the border to Hong Kong. And the universal condemnation that has appeared in the international media was only accentuated as a result of my passport then being revoked. Blaming others for one's own stupidity in this way is like failing to carry an umbrella when one knows it's going to rain, but then still forgetting to carry an umbrella the next time and even upbraiding others for carrying one feigning fury and outrage that other people should not be as stupid as oneself.
I would like to elaborate on the question of the Hong Kong Alliance. China's Minister of Public Security has openly said that there are good people and even patriotic people within the Triads, so one can cooperate with them. Surely there must be some good people inside the Hong Kong Alliance? Are they somehow prohibited from being patriotic? Why, then, should I not be permitted to establish and maintain friendly relations with them? What's more, all Hong Kong people and overseas Chinese know quite well how the Alliance was formed, under what conditions, and what kind of work it has always done. Its reputation is not something that can be swept away by a single bowl of dirty water being thrown at it. In fact, through fear that the news would leak if I told too many people about my plan to return, I did not even contact the Alliance when I first arrived back in Hong Kong this August. On the contrary, I repeatedly asked Lau Chin Shek and Lee Cheuk Yan not to tell anyone else. But both Lau and Lee are well- known labour leaders in Hong Kong, and perhaps if I had sought the help of the Alliance right from the beginning, I could have been in Beijing by now. The situation might not have been nearly so complicated.
4. On "turning myself in," "confessing my guilt," "humanitarianism" and "illegal activities"
On November 26, 1991, the Beijing People's Procuratorate announced its decision to "exempt me from prosecution," stating that this leniency was because
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