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发信人: changchi (oxo), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 美国中情局在香港政治中的角色
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 1 12:04:30 2014, 美东)
From Zerohedge.com
Link:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/us-secretly-egging-hong-kong-protesters
不懂英文的，用谷歌翻译吧。
Is the U.S. Secretly Egging On Hong Kong Protesters?
The mass demonstrations in Hong Kong are dramatic, indeed. And given that
Hong Kong has long enjoyed a more liberal existence under British rule,
protests against a more authoritarian Chinese government (at least it used
to be more authoritarian) are not entirely surprising.
But Chinese officials accuse the U.S. of egging on the protests. As the
Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog reports:
On Thursday, Wen Wei Po published an “expose” into what it described as
the U.S. connections of Joshua Wong, the 17 year-old leader of student group
Scholarism.
The story asserts that “U.S. forces” identified Mr. Wong’s potential
three years ago, and have worked since then to cultivate him as a “
political superstar.”
Evidence for Mr. Wong’s close ties to the U.S. that the paper cited
included what the report described as frequent meetings with U.S. consulate
personnel in Hong Kong and covert donations from Americans to Mr. Wong. As
evidence, the paper cited photographs leaked by “netizens.” The story also
said Mr. Wong’s family visited Macau in 2011 at the invitation of the
American Chamber of Commerce, where they stayed at the “U.S.-owned”
Venetian Macao, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
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This isn’t the first time that Beijing-friendly media have accused foreign
countries of covert meddling in the former British colony. China’s
government has long been concerned that Western intelligence agencies might
try to exploit the city’s relatively more open political environment to
push democracy in the rest of the country. The various “color revolutions”
that ushered in democratic governments across the former Soviet Union in
the early 2000s, and which were partly organized by foreign-funded NGOs,
heightened those concerns.
Allegations of foreign intervention in Hong Kong have become particularly
intense in the run-up to 2017, the earliest that Beijing has said Hong Kong
residents can begin to directly elect their leaders. Wen Wei Po and another
Beijing-leaning Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao, for example, have accused
the U.K. of stationing British spies across Hong Kong institutions. Pro-
Beijing publications have also accused Hong Kong media mogul and staunch
Beijing critic Jimmy Lai of having connections with the CIA. Mr. Lai is the
founder of Next Media Ltd., which owns the Apple Daily newspapers in Taiwan
and Hong Kong, and is a major donor to pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong.
In its report on Mr. Wang, Wen Wei Po said that the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency is making a pointed effort to infiltrate Hong Kong
schools, for example through the Hong Kong-America Center, a group headed by
former U.S. diplomat Morton Holbrook that promotes H.K.-U.S. ties. It also
alleged that the CIA is actively training a new generation of protest
leaders in Hong Kong through sponsoring students to study in the U.S., with
an aim of stoking future “color revolutions” in the city.
Tony Cartalucci writes:
Behind the so-called “Occupy Central” protests … is a deep and insidious
network of foreign financial, political, and media support. Prominent among
them is the US State Department and its National Endowment for Democracy (
NED) as well as NED’s subsidiary, the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Now, the US has taken a much more overt stance in supporting the chaos their
own manipulative networks have prepared and are now orchestrating. The
White House has now officially backed “Occupy Central.” Reuters in its
article, “White House Shows Support For Aspirations Of Hong Kong People,”
would claim:
The White House is watching democracy protests in Hong Kong closely and
supports the “aspirations of the Hong Kong people,” White House spokesman
Josh Earnest said on Monday. “
The United States supports universal suffrage in Hong Kong in accordance
with the Basic Law and we support the aspirations of the Hong Kong people,”
said Earnest, who also urged restraint on both sides.
US State Department Has Built Up and Directs “Occupy Central”
Image: The US through NED and its subsidiaries have a long history of
promoting subversion and division within China.
Earnest’s comments are verbatim the demands of “Occupy Central” protest
leaders, but more importantly, verbatim the long-laid designs the US State
Department’s NDI articulates on its own webpage dedicated to its ongoing
meddling in Hong Kong. The term “universal suffrage”and reference to “
Basic Law” and its “interpretation” to mean “genuine democracy” is
stated clearly on NDI’s website which claims:
The Basic Law put in place a framework of governance, whereby special
interest groups, or “functional constituencies,” maintain half of the
seats in the Legislative Council (LegCo). At present, Hong Kong’s chief
executive is also chosen by an undemocratically selected committee.
According to the language of the Basic Law, however, “universal suffrage”
is the “ultimate aim.” While “universal suffrage” remains undefined in
the law, Hong Kong citizens have interpreted it to mean genuine democracy.
To push this agenda – which essentially is to prevent Beijing from vetting
candidates running for office in Hong Kong, thus opening the door to
politicians openly backed, funded, and directed by the US State Department
– NDI lists an array of ongoing meddling it is carrying out on the island.
It states:
Since 1997, NDI has conducted a series of missions to Hong Kong to consider
the development of Hong Kong’s “post-reversion” election framework, the
status of autonomy, rule of law and civil liberties under Chinese
sovereignty, and the prospects for, and challenges to democratization.
It also claims:
In 2005, NDI initiated a six-month young political leaders program focused
on training a group of rising party and political group members in political
communications skills.
And:
NDI has also worked to bring political parties, government leaders and civil
society actors together in public forums to discuss political party
development, the role of parties in Hong Kong and political reform. In 2012,
for example, a conference by Hong Kong think tank SynergyNet supported by
NDI featured panelists from parties across the ideological spectrum and
explored how adopting a system of coalition government might lead to a more
responsive legislative process.
NDI also admits it has created, funded, and backed other organizations
operating in Hong Kong toward achieving the US State Department’s goals of
subverting Beijing’s control over the island:
In 2007, the Institute launched a women’s political participation program
that worked with the Women’s Political Participation Network (WPPN) and the
Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centres (HKFWC) to enhance women’s
participation in policy-making, encourage increased participation in
politics and ensure that women’s issues are taken into account in the
policy-making process.
And on a separate page, NDI describes programs it is conducting with the
University of Hong Kong to achieve its agenda:
The Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) at the University of Hong
Kong, with support from NDI, is working to amplify citizens’ voices in that
consultation process by creating Design Democracy Hong Kong (www.
designdemocracy.hk), a unique and neutral website that gives citizens a
place to discuss the future of Hong Kong’s electoral system.
It should be no surprise to readers then, to find out each and every “
Occupy Central” leader is either directly linked to the US State Department
, NED, and NDI, or involved in one of NDI’s many schemes.
Image: Benny Tai, “Occupy Central’s” leader, has spent years associated
with
and benefiting from US State Department cash and support.
“Occupy Central’s” self-proclaimed leader, Benny Tai, is a law professor
at the aforementioned University of Hong Kong and a regular collaborator
with the NDI-funded CCPL. In 2006-2007 (annual report, .pdf) he was named as
a board member – a position he has held until at least as recently as last
year. In CCPL’s 2011-2013 annual report (.pdf), NDI is listed as having
provided funding to the organization to “design and implement an online
Models of Universal Suffrage portal where the general public can discuss and
provide feedback and ideas on which method of universal suffrage is most
suitable for Hong Kong.”
Curiously, in CCPL’s most recent annual report for 2013-2014 (.pdf), Tai is
not listed as a board member. However, he is listed as participating in at
least 3 conferences organized by CCPL, and as heading at least one of CCPL’
s projects. At least one conference has him speaking side-by-side another
prominent “Occupy Central” figure, Audrey Eu. The 2013-2014 annual report
also lists NDI as funding CCPL’s “Design Democracy Hong Kong” website.
Civic Party chairwoman Audrey Eu Yuet-mee, in addition to speaking at CCPL-
NDI functions side-by-side with Benny Tai, is entwined with the US State
Department and its NDI elsewhere. She regularly attends forums sponsored by
NED and its subsidiary NDI. In 2009 she was a featured speaker at an NDI
sponsored public policy forum hosted by “SynergyNet,” also funded by NDI.
In 2012 she was a guest speaker at the NDI-funded Women’s Centre “
International Women’s Day” event, hosted by the Hong Kong Council of Women
(HKCW) which is also annually funded by the NDI.
Image: Martin Lee and Anson Chan belly up to the table with US Vice
President Joseph Biden in Washington DC earlier this year. During their trip
, both Lee and Chan would attend a NED-hosted talk about the future of “
democracy” in Hong Kong. Undoubtedly, “Occupy Central” and Washington’s
support of it was a topic reserved for behind closed doors.
There is also Martin Lee, founding chairman of Hong Kong’s Democrat Party
and another prominent figure who has come out in support of “Occupy Central
.” Just this year, Lee was in Washington meeting directly with US Vice
President Joseph Biden, US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and even took part in
an NED talk hosted specifically for him and his agenda of “democracy” in
Hong Kong. Lee even has a NED page dedicated to him after he was awarded in
1997 NED’s “Democracy Award.” With him in Washington was Anson Chan,
another prominent figure currently supporting the ongoing unrest in Hong
Kong’s streets.
The U.S. has certainly promoted regime change worldwide, often by using non-
governmental organizations as front groups to funnel money to dissidents who
will overthrow the government.
For example, USAID has been called the “new CIA”, and FBI whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds told Washington’s Blog that the U.S. State Department is
involved in many “hard power” operations, often coordinating through well-
known “Non-Governmental Organizations” (NGOs). Specifically, Edmonds
explained that numerous well-known NGOs – which claim to focus on
development, birth control, women’s rights, fighting oppression and other
“magnificent sounding” purposes or seemingly benign issues – act as
covers for State Department operations. She said that the State Department
directly places operatives inside the NGOs.
Edmonds also told us that – during the late 90s and early 2000s – perhaps
30-40% of the people working for NGOs operated by George Soros were actually
working for the U.S. State Department.
If this all sounds too nutty, remember that historians say that declining
empires tend to attack their rising rivals … so the risk of world war is
rising because the U.S. feels threatened by the rising empire of China.
The U.S. government considers economic rivalry to be a basis for war. And
the U.S. is systematically using the military to contain China’s growing
economic influence.
And U.S. sanctions against Russia are not having the desired effect …
largely because China is picking up the slack by trading with Russia and
even loaning it money.
Indeed, China, Russia, India and Brazil have formed what some top economists
say is an alternative to the Western financial institutions, the World Bank
and IMF. And China is challenging the petrodollar.
So it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that the U.S. (and the former
owner of Hong Kong, Britain) egged on democracy protesters in Hong Kong in
order to try to shake up the Chinese regime. | b********n
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【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
: 发信人: changchi (oxo), 信区: WaterWorld
: 标 题: 美国中情局在香港政治中的角色
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 1 12:04:30 2014, 美东)
: From Zerohedge.com
: Link:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/us-secretly-egging-hong-kong-protesters
: 不懂英文的，用谷歌翻译吧。
: Is the U.S. Secretly Egging On Hong Kong Protesters?
: The mass demonstrations in Hong Kong are dramatic, indeed. And given that
: Hong Kong has long enjoyed a more liberal existence under British rule,
| b********n
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: US State Department Has Built Up and Directs “Occupy Central”
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发帖数: 9508 | 4 US secretly involved???????
it is so fucking obvious by many damn deeds US did.
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
: 发信人: changchi (oxo), 信区: WaterWorld
: 标 题: 美国中情局在香港政治中的角色
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 1 12:04:30 2014, 美东)
: From Zerohedge.com
: Link:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/us-secretly-egging-hong-kong-protesters
: 不懂英文的，用谷歌翻译吧。
: Is the U.S. Secretly Egging On Hong Kong Protesters?
: The mass demonstrations in Hong Kong are dramatic, indeed. And given that
: Hong Kong has long enjoyed a more liberal existence under British rule,
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