in april 2018, wang said in a speech that hong kong residents needed to respect and understand the chinese constitution, as it is the "root and foundation" of its future following the amendment of article 1 of the chinese constitution to denote the communist party of china leadership as "the most essential feature of socialism with chinese characteristics". targeting the pro-democrats' slogan of calling for the end of "one party dictatorship" since the tiananmen square incident of 1989. wang said "if you oppose this system, you are overturning our one country, two systems. this is a crime committed against hong kong people. it will not bring blessings to hong kong, but calamity."