In Hong Kong, ""Jee-na" or "Chee-na", the Cantonese pronunciation of the term "Shina"", is used in a derogatory sense against mainland Chinese under the backdrop of ongoing local tensions between Hong Kong nationalists and mainland China, even in official capacity. Hong Kong localist politicians Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung used terms such as "people's re-fucking of "Chee-na"" during their controversial oath swearing as elected members of the Hong Kong legislature. Ray Wong, founder of the localist gourp Hong Kong Indigenous, expresses that he calls everything Chinese Shina because "[Chinese] Communist Party is my personal enemy." Shina is widely used as an insult toward mainland Chinese in pro-democracy and pro-independence protest throughout Hong Kong.