Some 153 candidates are in the fray for 90 Legislative Council seats in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. For months now, the candidates have been campaigning in the streets for votes. Local resident, irrespective of race, class, property or religion, can vote for their favored candidates. Among the candidates are bus drivers and other workers, not what one usually sees in elections in the West.

With all these characteristics, the upcoming Legislative Council elections in the Hong Kong SAR exemplify what democracy should look like. In the words of Xia Baolong, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and head of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, on Monday, the democracy in Hong Kong is highly diversified and more representative of the people.

That's an apt response to a few Western politicians who call the SAR's moves to improve the electoral system as "ruining democracy". Hong Kong's democracy speaks much louder than the lies of certain Western politicians and media outlets.

By speaking against Hong Kong's democracy, Western politicians and media outlets are in no way trying to improve it. On the contrary, they are the ones who want to ruin it.

On Nov 29, the Wall Street Journal said in an editorial that "blank ballots are one of the last ways for Hong Kongers to express their political views". In other words, certain Western media outlets intend to incite people in Hong Kong to cast blank ballots, or give up their democratic rights. Basically, they don't care about democracy in Hong Kong. They mostly care about is creating a false narrative and embarrassing China.

That's also why the US is going to hold the so-called summit for democracy this week. It only exposes their ignorance and prejudice. They portray themselves as "preachers" of democracy, but it is they who are trying to destroy it on Chinese soil.

Their efforts are, of course, doomed to fail. The coming year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland. There is sufficient reason to remain hopeful of an improved electoral system, which has already come into effect for eight months, serving the Hong Kong people better in the years to come.

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