quango set up in 1983 to replace the covert subversion of foreign
nations by the CIA with a more open "color revolution" approach
with government money, pumped more than $1.7 million into Hong
Kong "civil society" groups over the past three years, 2016-18.
As usual, the money went to supporting "human rights," "rule of
law," "international democratic standards," "voices defending
freedom of information and expression," and the NED funded
"Solidarity Center," which is aimed at radicalizing trade unions.
While grants from 2019 are not yet posted on their website,
one of the last grants issued in 2018, $200,000 for "Promoting
Engagement of Fundamental Rights" (which went through the
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the
Democrat branch of the NED, run by Madeline Albright) states
explicitly: "To facilitate engagement on Hong Kong's growing
threats to guaranteed rights." This refers to the Hong Kong Basic
Law established by the UK and China to govern Hong Kong for the
50 years following the turnover in 1997. The Brits and their
assets in the US like to ignore the part of that agreement which
grants sovereignty to China, while complaining about supposed
breaches of rights allowed for Hong Kong under the "One Country-
Two Systems" concept. The British argument is that any
subversion, violent or otherwise, which challenges China's
sovereignty must be allowed by Beijing, or it is interfering with
the Basic Law.
China will not play that game, and is prepared to intervene
if the color revolution is not stopped.
Beijing knows full well that the NED is not only active in
subverting Hong Kong, but across China. Over the same three
years, 2016-18, the NED issued grants of over $29 million to
groups in China and opposition groups abroad -- all to the "usual
suspects": freedom of information and expression, open debate,
human rights, rule of law, "citizen's journalism," democracy
radio and journals, religious freedom, government transperancy,
etc. Nearly half a million dollars went into environmental groups
and "networks of environmental groups."
A massive $4,135,000 went to Tibetan opposition
organizations, and $2,742,000 to Uighur opposition groups around
the world and in Xinjiang -- which the NED refers to as "East
Turkistan." [mob]