jones wrote:
I'd argue meeting up with and getting funded by the likes of Marco Rubio definitely counts as collusion with foreign forces.
jones wrote:
Thanks, I haven't read that. I just commented on Wong and the grooming job your usual regime changing actors in the US have done on him. National Endowment for Democracy, NDI, ultra conservative hawks like Tom Cotton, about a dozen meetings with Rubio and last year he met a couple of times with Julie Eadeh the political chief of the US embassy in HK.
You'll probably say again that the ends justify the means but for me they don't. The people of HK might have legitimate grievances against Beijing but getting in bed with these people, if it ever were to find any success, would be so much worse. None of these Republicans would do anything about the worst issue any HKer faces anyway the obscene cost of living/renting.
The geopolitics nerds are really out in force with the NED stuff over Hong Kong, because to them everything is the CIA, but I don't quite buy it. Yes Hong Kong "movement leaders" have met repeatedly with US government figures, been flown back and forth from DC etc but you don't get the sort of street action seen in Hong Kong over the last months without huge spontaneous support from the public.
As for soft power, imagine how much Beijing would be bringing to bear to influence matters.
There's no good aspect to this law getting passed, it's an instrument to suppress speech and resistance. The thing with Hong Kong in 2020 is that it's only about 3% of the Chinese economy now, so the CCP leadership probably isn't even that fussed about it and can afford to play a long game gradually expanding its dominance.
