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The USA has finally admitted that it sponsored, trained and funded the Hong Kong protests of 2019 and 2020

This isn’t a topical post. It’s just historical for those with short memories.

A secret high-level committee of Hong Kong senior activists worked with Western agents from the CIA to coordinate and amplify the leaderless protests against the fugitive law amendment last year, Nury Vittachi claims in his book The Other Side of the Story: A Secret War in Hong Kong.

Vittachi, a veteran journalist and a columnist for The Standard, accused the CIA of funding anti-government activities in the SAR. He said Hong Kong protesters have received practical training in street-protest strategy and media control from members of the professional revolution industry since January 2013.

The book named three US-based groups - the Oslo Freedom Foundation, the Albert Einstein Institute and the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies - which were directly involved in last year's social unrest.

He added that public records had shown that the National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA's regime-change arm, had sent HK$170 million to the mainland or Hong Kong since 2014 to "advance the cause of democracy."

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This is an article that I wrote at the tail end of 2019, as I was getting ready to leave to my in-laws for the 2020 Chinese New Year. At that time, the news was awash with articles that Donald Trump admitted to being involved in the protests, and that he intended a “color revolution” there. He also admitted to supporting the NED and other adversarial elements.

This was all as a result of getting China to agree to a very watered-down trade agreement at that time. Then after two days, all news went quiet about the United States involvement in trying to destabilize Hong Kong.

Hush…

(Be quiet)

Nothing to see here…

Then COVID-19 hit China hard, and Donald Trump unleashed a most aggressive and nasty anti-China propaganda campaign. Simultaneously. One that continued for at least six months, up until that too… ended. When he himself admitted to sponsoring the anti-Chinese propaganda onslaught as well.

Well, here it is. Around one year later.

All the dust has cleared and settled. We’ve had a near non-stop “hybrid-war” of America against China raging for a year now. We can see the hand of America in just about every “accident”, and “coincidence” that befell China during 2020.

And as America decided to engage in a Lose-lose strategy against China, their calculus was that China would suffer far worse than America would. Because China was fragile, did not have people’s support, made shoddy products, ate disgusting animals, and wore ill fitting clothing, etc…

Well, all 2020 was a “hybrid-war”. It was a lose-lose engagement. And who actually lost more China or the USA? Look at the 2020 Q2 growth rate;

  • USA is -9.1%
  • China is 3.2%

Now, if you are reading this, you all pretty much understand this. The United States is on fire. There are protests in all the cities. There’s an election going on, and it’s a bloody slug-fest between the two candidates and their followers. America is a real mess with defaults, bankruptcy and unemployment rampant on all levels.

And yet…

And yet still…

Americans believe that the Chinese hate their government, and that China is covering up and suppressing the “pro-democracy” movement in Hong Kong. that it’s all a big lie that the Chinese are happy with their government. All news out of China is considered a lie, and all data and figures out of China must be a lie, because there is “no way” that China could be doing better than American. It’s inconceivable!

Well, no it’s not.

The Chinese don’t need to lie. It’s not a “democracy” that depends on public opinion to stay in power. They don’t fuck around. They tell the truth and if you can’t handle it, well tough noodles! Which is pretty much one of the many reasons why the Chinese love their nation, and why they are all hyper-patriotic.

And meanwhile, in the United States…

Yet, somehow the Americans that I have been talking to say that everything about China is a lie, and the polls in America are all a lie, and that President Donald Trump is doing the best job of any President in history. And as such they cannot believe that all that nonsense about Pepe the frog in HK, and the singing the American anthem in HK, and waving American flags were all just props of an American “color revolution effort”.

Well…

Here’s my post for prosperity…

This post was derived from an article titled “US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong” written on October 6, 2019 from Mideast Discourse By Tony Cartalucci. The original source of this article is Land Destroyer Report and Global Research. Update 28JUN20. using “Donald Trump decided to stop funding the protests in Hong Kong.“ It was edited to fit this venue, and of course all credit to the original authors.

US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong

Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called “Arab Spring” began spreading chaos across the Middle East that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that the US State Department through a myriad of organizations and NGOs is behind the so-called “Occupy Central” protests in Hong Kong. 

The Washington Post would report in an article titled, “Hong Kong erupts even as China tightens screws on civil society,” that:

Chinese leaders unnerved by  protests elsewhere this year have been steadily tightening controls over  civic organizations on the mainland suspected of carrying out the work  of foreign powers.

The campaign aims to insulate China from subversive Western ideas such as democracy and freedom of expression, and from the influence, specifically, of U.S. groups that may be trying to promote those values here, experts say.

“Experts” say…

Subversive ideas like “democracy“, and the “freedom of expression“.

How dare China!

That campaign  is long-standing, but it has been prosecuted with renewed vigor under President Xi Jinping, especially after the overthrow of Ukrainian  President Viktor Yanukovych following months of street demonstrations in Kiev that were viewed here as explicitly backed by the West.

The Washington Post would also report:

One foreign policy expert, who  spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject, said  Putin had called Xi to share his concern about the West’s role in  Ukraine. 

Those concerns appear to have filtered down into conversations  held over cups of tea in China, according to civil society group  members.

So both the Presidents of Russia and China are alarmed, or “concerned” about the Untied States government trying to destabilize their nations.

“They are very concerned about  Color Revolutions, they are very concerned about what is going on in  Ukraine,” said the international NGO manager.

(Whose organization is  partly financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)). 

... blamed  here for supporting the protests in Kiev’s central Maidan square.

“They say, ‘Your money is coming from the same people. Clearly you want to  overthrow China.’ ”

Oh, but you do know that the NED is the CIA.

  • Same funding.
  • Same leadership.
  • Same direction.
  • Same training manuals.
  • Same operational objectives.
Congressionally funded  with the explicit goal of promoting democracy abroad...

... NED has long been  viewed with suspicion or hostility by the authorities here. 

But the net of suspicion has widened to encompass such U.S. groups as

... the Ford Foundation, 
... the International Republican Institute, 
... the Carter Center and,
... the Asia Foundation. 

Of course, NED and its many subsidiaries including the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute do no such thing as “promoting democracy.”

Instead they are in the business of constructing a global network of neo-imperial administration termed “civil society” that interlocks with the West’s many so-called “international institutions”…

… which in turn  are completely controlled by interests in Washington, upon Wall Street, and in the cities of London and Brussels.

While the Washington Post would have readers believe NED is in the business of promoting “freedom of expression” and “democracy” the corporate-financier interests represented on NED’s board of directors are anything but champions of such principles, and are instead notorious for principles precisely the opposite. 

The very concept of the United States “promoting democracy” is scandalous when considering it is embroiled in an invasive global surveillance scandal…

… guilty of persecuting one unpopular war after another around the planet against the will of its own people…

… and based on verified lies…

… and brutalizing and abusing its own citizens at home with militarized police cracking down on civilians in towns like Ferguson, Missouri.

All of which makes China’s police actions against “Occupy Central” protesters pale in comparison.

“Promoting democracy” is clearly cover for simply expanding its hegemonic agenda far beyond its borders and at the expense of national sovereignty for all subjected to it, including Americans themselves.

In 2011, similar revelations were made public of the US’ meddling in the so-called “Arab Spring” when the New York Times would report in an article titled, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” that:

A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region...

... including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, 
... the Bahrain Center for Human Rights 
... and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a  youth leader in Yemen...

... received training and financing from groups like...

... the International Republican Institute, 
... the National Democratic Institute and...
... Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based  in Washington.

The article would also add, regarding NED specifically, that:

The Republican and Democratic  institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic  Parties. 

They were created by the United States Congress and are financed through the  National Endowment for Democracy NED.

The NED was set up in 1983 to channel  grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. 

The National  Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. 

Freedom  House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government,  mainly from the State Department.

Pro-war and interventionist US Senator John McCain had famously taunted both Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping’s predecessor in 2011 that the US subversion sweeping the Middle East was soon headed toward Moscow and Beijing.

The Atlantic in a 2011 article titled, “The Arab Spring: ‘A Virus That Will Attack Moscow and Beijing’,” would report that:

He [McCain] said, 

“A year ago,  Ben-Ali and Gaddafi were not in power. Assad won’t be in power this time  next year. This Arab Spring is a virus that will attack Moscow and  Beijing.” 

McCain then walked off the stage.

Considering the overt foreign-funded nature of not only the “Arab Spring,” but now “Occupy Central,”…

… and considering the chaos, death, destabilization, and collapse suffered by victims of previous US subversion…

… “Occupy Central” can be painted in a new light…

…it’s a mob of dupes being used to destroy their own homes…

…all the while abusing the principles of “democracy”…

…. behind which is couched an insidious, diametrically opposed foreign imposed tyranny.

A tyranny driven by immense, global spanning corporate-financier interests that fear and actively destroy competition.

In particular, this global hegemon seeks to suppress the reemergence of Russia as a global power, and prevent the rise of China itself upon the world’s stage.

The regressive agenda of “Occupy Central’s” US-backed leadership, and their shameless exploitation of the good intentions of the many young people ensnared by their gimmicks…

…forever pose a threat in reality that is every bit as dangerous as the “threat” they claim Beijing poses to the island of Hong Kong and its people.

Conclusion

It’s the tail end of 2020. We can look back over the last four years of the Donald Trump administration and the unusual series of events surrounding China with the eyes of experience. No longer can all the events be attributed to “unlucky coincidences”. From day one, and point zero, President Trump and his cabal of neocons went on the “war path” against China and did everything in their power short of an all-out hot shooting war to suppress China’s rise.

They have been largely unsuccessful.

Though, and make no mistake, things are still in process and there are apt to be more terrible surprises in the future.

This post concerns the efforts to destabilize Hong Kong.

In short, and in conclusion, the United States went all-out to destabilize Hong Kong, create unrest and scare away European interests from that region. They supported, trained, and funded “fifth column” agents who trained, and authored, the many violent protests within Hong Kong.

A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation. 

The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. 

Forces gathered in secret can mobilize openly to assist an external attack. 

This term is also extended to organized actions by military personnel. 

Clandestine fifth column activities can involve acts of sabotage, disinformation, or espionage executed within defense lines by secret sympathizers with an external force.

-Wikipedia

Make no mistake, all the American “color revolutions” around the globe are “Fifth column” events. It is the preferred option for America to conduct war when the opposing military is too strong, or better organized than American military forces are.

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