6.09.2019, New Eastern Outlook (Russia)
https://journal-neo.org/2019/09/26/hong-kong-protests-fading-foreign-tantrum-not-genuine-revolution/
Just as unfolded in 2014 during the
so-called “Umbrella protests” or “Occupy Central” movement, a growing backlash
has begun across Hong Kong against US-funded
protests that
have attempted to disrupt governance and commerce as part of a floundering
movement to maintain Western influence in the region.
The Sydney Morning Herald in its
article, “Triads linked
to violent pro-China gangs as Hong Kong protests enter dangerous new phase,” ignored weeks of violence carried
out by US-backed protests in Hong Kong, and portrayed locals retaliating as
“violent pro-China gangs.” It should be pointed out that Hong Kong
is in China.
The article claims:
Turbulence in Hong Kong has reached
a dangerous new phase, analysts say, amid escalating
violence and the failure
of Chief Executive Carrie Lam to respond to the political crisis.
Television broadcasts on Monday were
dominated by scenes of white-shirted men believed to be triad members caning
and chasing train commuters as they hunted for democracy protesters on Sunday
evening. People screamed as the gangs entered train carriages at Yuen Long
station.
Having failed to attract wider
public support, US-backed protesters have begun resorting to increasingly
disruptive activities including raiding government buildings, storming
commercial districts to intimidate visitors from mainland China and even
targeting public transportation.
Backlash Follows Weeks of Violence
and Vandalism by Pro-Western Protests
Before the SMH’s “violent pro-China
gangs” showed up, US-backed protesters had admittedly stormed Hong
Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) building.
Activists had occupied the
Legislative Council (LegCo) building for hours after breaking away from a
protest on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s transfer of sovereignty to China from
Britain.
The BBC also admitted the protesters
carried out vandalism inside the building:
Inside, they defaced the emblem of
Hong Kong in the central chamber, raised the old British colonial flag,
spray-painted messages across the walls, and shattered furniture.
The Financial Times in their
article, “Hong Kong
protesters target Chinese government office,” mentioned another government building
targeted by the protesters, the Liaison Office for Hong Kong representing
Beijing. The article reported:
Demonstrators spray-painted over the
lenses of security cameras in front of the building and one threw an egg that
splattered on its glass facade. Others wrote graffiti on a wall including an
insult against China, and defaced lettering on the building’s gate.
The Guardian attempted to conceal
the nature of the protests in its article, “Hong Kong
protest ends in chaotic clashes between police and demonstrators,” which was ultimately about
protesters targeting a shopping centre popular with mainland visitors.
The article would claim:
Violent clashes have erupted between
Hong Kong police and protesters at the end of a peaceful demonstration against
the controversial extradition bill. The incidents took place late on Sunday in
a bustling town between Hong Kong island and the border with China.
The scene descended into chaos
shortly before 10pm local time (1400 GMT), after riot police chased protesters
into a shopping centre in Sha Tin.
However, the Financial Times in its
article, “Hong Kong protesters
try to woo Chinese tourists to their cause,” admitted the protesters intentionally
targeted the shopping centre rather than merely being “chased into it.” The
article admits:
Hong Kong protesters against a
controversial extradition bill for the first time targeted a busy shopping
district popular with mainland Chinese tourists in an attempt to raise
awareness of the issue across the border.
A recently built high-speed train
station connecting Hong Kong with mainland China was also targeted. AFP-JIJI in
its article, “Hong Kong
protesters march on station to get message across to visiting Chinese
mainlanders,” would
admit:
Tens of thousands of anti-government
protesters on Sunday rallied outside a controversial train station linking the
territory to the Chinese mainland, the latest mass show of anger as activists
try to keep pressure on the city’s pro-Beijing leaders.
The US-backed protesters have also
targeted journalists. The New York Times in its article, “Hong Kong
Protesters’ New Target: A News Station Seen as China’s Friend,” attempted to defend the targeting
of journalists perceived as being “pro-Beijing” claiming:
The confrontation on Wednesday, when
the TVB journalist was surrounded, was not an isolated incident. Last month,
protesters heckled another TVB video journalist, unfurling umbrellas to block
his camera and chanting, “TVB news, selling out the people of Hong Kong!”
The New York Times fails to mention
that opposition media is almost exclusively funded and supported from abroad,
particularly out of Washington DC. If Beijing has no say or influence in Hong
Kong, territory literally within its own borders, what say does Washington have
so many thousands of miles away?
Together, the increasingly
disruptive behaviour of the protesters coupled with growing violence and overt
endorsement and even support being provided by the United States and other
foreign interests, are attempting to target and impact virtually every aspect
of life in Hong Kong linked to stability, peace and prosperity.
If the United States cannot maintain
Hong Kong as its foothold inside Chinese territory and enjoy the benefits of
its prosperity, no one else will either.
Hong Kong is China
The government of Hong Kong is
elected by both the people and organisations representing influential business
communities there. The government is overwhelmingly pro-Beijing because Hong
Kong is now firmly part of China. It was handed back to China in 1997 by the UK
after over 170 years of British subjugation.
An influx of mainlanders, major
infrastructure projects and flourishing business between the former British colony and
China’s mainland has begun the irreversible re-integration of Hong Kong back
into China.
Notions including “Basic Law” and
“one country, two systems” were imposed on Beijing which at the time still
lacked the political, economic and military power it now possesses. Both Basic
Law and the “one country, two systems” arrangement were imposed on Beijing by
London specifically as a means of technically handing Hong Kong over, but in
practice, maintaining Western influence and the region’s role as Anglo-American
foothold within Chinese territory.
As British influence across
Asia-Pacific waned over time, Washington took over. Core leaders of Hong Kong’s
ongoing protests against Beijing are funded and directed by Washington with
many of these leaders, including Martin Lee, Joshua Wong and Benny Tai having
literally travelled to Washington to receive support and even awards for their
continuously disruptive behaviour.
Beijing has patiently weathered the
West’s disruptive activities within its territory. In addition to Hong Kong,
the US has nurtured separatism and terrorism in China’s
Xinjiang region as
well as armed
insurrection and separatism in Tibet that has spanned more than half a
century.
All of this is part of an admittedly
decades-long strategy of encircling and containing China’s rise as a global
power in order to preserve American primacy.
China’s answer has been meeting
US-backed identity politics designed to divide and destroy, with massive
infrastructure, education and economic programmes that have clearly gained the
upper-hand even in places like Hong Kong where Western influence has been so
deeply entrenched.
When faced with the choice of
political instability or infrastructure and economic prosperity, the choice is
very simple for the people of not only Hong Kong, but also Xinjiang and Tibet.
It is no wonder residents in Hong
Kong have responded negatively to the violence and disruption perpetrated by
US-backed protesters. The majority of Hong Kong has nothing to gain from
disrupting commerce, targeting infrastructure, blocking roads and the vandalism
of public property especially considering why it is really being done.
It is not being done for the people
of Hong Kong or the nation of China of which Hong Kong once again now belongs.
It is being done for Washington and is just one small part of a much wider, global
slash-and-burn foreign policy. The protests in Hong Kong are also part of that
policy failing. As US primacy fades across the globe, Washington has resorted
to increasingly desperate and spiteful acts of destabilisation, as seen in Hong
Kong.
The protests have no future in Hong
Kong. They are led by an increasingly unpopular minority backed by a fading
global power, and fighting against a growing global colossus within its own
borders. The only real question is; how much damage will Washington and its proxies
do as they throw this final tantrum?
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