But back to “Huanqiu Shibao”‘s editorial.
In the process of Hong Kong’s extremist forces’ demonstrations becoming more and more violent, the involvement of Western forces, too, becomes more and more obvious. Their involvement in the fermentation in Hong Kong’s society can not be separated from a number of traitorous persons who cooperate with and assist [those forces]. Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee and others can be rated as representatives of this number of traitors.
在香港极端势力示威越来越暴力化的过程中，西方势力的介入越来越公开化，而这种介入在香港社会发酵，离不开一批汉奸人物的配合与助攻。黎智英、李柱铭等人堪称这批汉奸的代表者。
The controversy about a legislation draft in Hong Kong has turned into turmoil all over the territory of Hong Kong. It has wreaked havoc and has pounded the foundations of rule of law in Hong Kong. The dramatic developments “rhyme” very well with the global tensions in Chinese-American relations. From last to this year, Jimmy Lai’s, Martin Lee’s and other old-hand “democratic leaders'” contacts with US and Western governments have reached unprecedented closeness, increasingly taking the shape of unbridled collusion in the support of the inflated Hong Kong street politics. This growing collusion provides Hong Kong street politics with its evil fuel.
香港围绕一项立法的争议激化成全港大动荡，直至暴力肆虐，冲击到香港法治的根基，事态的戏剧性发展与中美关系出现全局性紧张的大环境是非常“押韵”的。从去年到今年，黎智英、李柱铭等老牌“民主领袖”与美国及西方政府、议会的接触达到空前密度，形成越来越肆无忌惮的勾结，这些勾结为香港街头政治的膨胀提供了罪恶的燃料。
And that’s not all. These extremists have noticed that the strategic contest between China and America is intensifying, that Washington spares no effort to find levers and to put pressure on China. They actively exploit the opportunity and squeeze the ocean with their own importance, but also make every effort to display their usefulness in squeezing China.
事态的演变不仅于此。这批极端人物看到中美的战略博弈逐渐趋紧，华盛顿不遗余力地启动能够对北京施加压力的各种杠杆，他们积极地往上凑，不仅挟洋自重，而且极力向美方展示自己协助遏制中国的工具意义。
These people have wild ambitions: to turn Hong Kong into a special field of the strategic game between China and the US, to help maximize Washington’s and the West’s influence grow in Hong Kong, to “balance” the basic law’s “one country” content and to minimize “one country, two systems”, even hollow the term out and make it lose any real substance, turning Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy under the “two systems” into actual independence.
这些人有一个野心：把香港变成中美战略博弈的特殊角力场，让华盛顿和西方在香港的影响最大化，“平衡”基本法中“一国”的内容，让“一国两制”机制中的“一国”最小化，甚至名存实亡，让“两制”下香港的高度自治成为实际上的独立。
There have always been traitors in the game between China and the outside world, and even appeared at critical moments of such standoffs. Apart from working as immediate forces for outside forces invading and suppressing China, but also helped to break the internal unity of Chinese people and help foreign forces to brainwash the Chinese. People like Jimmy Lai and Martin Lee are exact models of modern-age traitors.
汉奸都是出在中外博弈乃至发生对抗的特殊关头，他们的作用除了直接为侵略和打压中国的外部势力效力，还包括破坏中国人的内部团结，帮助外部势力给中国人洗脑。黎智英、李柱铭这些人就是典型的现代汉奸。
Playing the banner of striving for Hong Kongers’ “democracy” and “freedom”, these modern traitors are more baffling than traitors in history. They borrowed this banner from the American and Western forces that are attacking China. At the times when [those forces] advertised the spreading of “democracy” and “freedom” to China, their real goal was to prevent China from becoming rich and powerful, and to destroy the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
香港出的这批现代汉奸打着为港人争“民主”“自由”的旗号，比历史上的汉奸更具有迷惑性。他们的这一旗号是从美西方攻击中国的势力那里借过来的，后者在标榜对华传播“民主”“自由”的时候，真正锁定的是阻止中国走向强盛，破坏中华民族的伟大复兴。
Jimmy Lai’s and Martin Lee’s structures are small. They are only seeking their own and a small group’s benefit, but what they betray is the great objective of the Chinese nation. With American and Western forces, they build an alliance to pin China down, and what they have in common is that they lose their head because of material greed.
黎智英、李柱铭等人的格局很小，他们追求的仅仅是个人和小团体的利益，背叛的则是中华民族的大目标。他们与美西方的势力结成牵制中国崛起的同盟，利令智昏是近代以来汉奸们的共通点。
During his visit to the US in May this year, Martin Lee met with Pompeo, Pelosi, and others. Media coverage reflected that he clearly discussed the use of opposition against the “fugitives extradition” bill for tactics to strike at Hong Kong’s social order. Although “veteran” oppositionals like him and Jimmy Lai have lost their leadership role in the demonstrations against the bill, they still make every effort to freeload on the [protesters’] short-lived enthusiasm, fishing for ill-gotten political gains, and continuing their role as traitors.
李柱铭在今年5月的访美中与蓬佩奥、佩洛西等人见了面，媒体的报道反映出，他显然与美国高官商讨了利用反修订《逃犯条例》来打击香港秩序的策略。他和黎智英这批“老资格”的反对派虽然在反修例的示威中失去了主导权，但他们依然极力想蹭热度，捞取政治油水，继续发挥他们的汉奸作用。卖港和私赢在他们那里实为一回事。
Jimmy Lai has been described as Hong Kong opposition’s “largest financial backer”, but where his money comes from has always been questioned. More than a month ago, when Hong Kong’s situation became chaotic, his company’s shares rose sharply, making the questions reaching new heights. What kind of external benefit links his company’s capital has with American and Western capital is believed to be Jimmy Lai’s underpants which he doesn’t dare to show.
黎智英被称为香港反对派的“最大金主”，但他的钱是从哪儿来的一直饱受质疑。一个多月前香港局势乱起来，他公司的股票却突然暴涨，使这种质疑达到新的高潮。他的公司与美国和西方资本有什么外界不知道的利益关系，这被认为是黎智英不敢解衣示人的内裤。
To bring Hong Kong into the focus of Chinese-American games is also treason to the benefit of seven million Hong Kongers. America hasn’t any authority over Hong Kong, and outside regular trade links with Hong Kong, it won’t invest great resources into encouraging “democracy”. Freeloading for itself and its closest allies is Washington’s policy now. Washington’s only use for Hong Kong in this game with China is to mess Hong Kong up as an international financial center, to destroy harmony between mainland society’s harmony with Hong Kong, and to add any kind of trouble to pin down Beijing.
把香港变成中美博弈的新焦点，这同样是对香港七百多万市民利益的根本背叛。美国对香港无任何管治权，也不会在与香港正常贸易机制之外为鼓励它的“民主”大规模投入资源，华盛顿现在连对最亲密盟友也奉行揩油的政策。美方利用香港同中国博弈的唯一方式就是搞乱这个国际金融中心，破坏内地社会与香港的和谐，用在香港制造各种麻烦牵制北京。
The traitors Lai and Li have already quenched Washington’s urgent thirst for new game pieces. They aren’t in the trials of China’s history, but specializing in trying to please the Western forces, having assigned themselves to the American and Western camp to their bones.
黎、李这批汉奸解了华盛顿急需一张新牌的渴。他们不在乎中国历史的审判，更专注于取悦西方势力，他们已经在骨子里把自己归入到美国和西方阵营。
However, traitors have always been outside forces’ cheap goods of use, and have therefore also been looked down upon. Lai’s and Lee’s exits from the stage will certainly be be nailed to Hong Kong’s historic pillar of humiliation, and in the West, they will be forgotten ghosts.
然而汉奸在外部势力眼里从来就是廉价的利用品，而且他们在被利用的同时亦会受到鄙视。黎、李之流的下场一定会被钉到香港历史的耻辱柱上，而在西方那边，他们都将是过眼云烟的孤魂野鬼。
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