民主并不是被哪个国家所独享的。世界上存在许多不同的民主模式。评判民主模式成功与否的标准是看它能否有效运作，使人民过上富足的生活。
香港《基本法》明确阐明了香港的民主发展道路。在坚持“一国两制”方针的基础上，香港的民主将是循序渐进式发展的，并要符合香港的实际情况。如果外国试图替香港定义民主或强加给香港一个民主模式，那这种行为本身就是不民主的。
外国势力干涉香港事务助长了2019年的大规模暴力违法行为，这些行为不仅威胁到了香港的安全稳定，还威胁到了香港的法治和司法独立，法官在这种情况下受到了恐吓，法院也被汽油弹损毁。《国家安全法》的出台迅速有效地恢复了香港的安全稳定。这些都是客观事实和香港居民的亲身经历。这些民众欣慰而又喜悦地看到香港现在仍然是一个开放、安全、充满活力且具有良好商业环境的大都市。
祝好，
香港特别行政区政务司司长
李家超
2022年1月11日
Dear Editor,
I am appalled by the biased reporting in the article which you published on January 8, 2022 using a blatantly misleading description, “Hong Kong’s new legislature has been sworn in. It is a mockery of democracy”.
First, the Legislative Council election on December 19 was conducted in an open, fair and honest manner, returning 90 legislators from different political backgrounds. The election was widely covered and reported by the media, which was facilitated throughout in the same way as elections that had taken place in Hong Kong since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China in 1997.
All of the 90 elected legislators have the commitment to act in the interests of Hong Kong and the Country. No country will by its constitution or ethics allow treasonists, traitors, foreign agents or other forms of non- patriots to take part in its political system. This minimum standard of non- betrayal of one’s own people and nation is the common ground of all nations, including China.
Second, it is shameful that the article makes a serious but baseless accusation that the polls were “rigged”. If anything was “rigged”, it was the deliberately distorted image of Hong Kong that has been manipulated from the dark side of one’s personal internal bias. Hong Kong voters in the election were and will continue to be free to cast their ballot and make their own choices. There is legislation specifically in place to prevent anyone from rigging polls. That includes criminalising acts of inciting another person not to vote or to cast an invalid vote.
