What’s Happening in Hong Kong? Debunking a Color Revolution
“Free Hong Kong” is a US-backed imperialist color revolution directly sponsored by regime change organizations and private capital.
The Hong Kong protests have been compared to other anti-colonial protests like BLM, Free Palestine, and resistance to South African Apartheid. But most well-meaning progressives do not know about the US government’s direct involvement in funding and arming the Hong Kong protests, which are led by reactionaries who glorify British colonialism, Donald Trump, and Nazi imagery in the service of capitalism. This is not a cause that the left should be supporting. This list of resources will help debunk the misinformation surrounding these protests, and reveal the true nature of “Free Hong Kong” as a US-backed imperialist color revolution directly sponsored by regime change organizations and private capital.
1. MintPressNews explains that the HK protests are run by neoliberals, the NED, and the capitalist class
2. Hakim produces a similar video showing how alt-right protestors are attracted to Hong Kong
3. Radio Free Asia is run by the US State Department
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
4. Hong Kong Free Press is run by Tom Grundy, a British man wearing digital yellowface (e.g. pretending to be Chinese online) and writing under a Chinese pen name
Hong Kong Free Press - Wikipedia
Hong Kong Free Press ( HKFP) is a free, non-profit news website based in Hong Kong. It was co-founded in 2015 by Tom…en.wikipedia.org
5. HK was a British colony, colonized in 1841 during the Opium War and returned to China in 1997 under “One Country, two Systems”. For over 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong served as a tropical vacation site for wealthy foreigners who expected an exotic, subservient race to tend to their every need.
The British had faced countless riots and protests against their brutal colonial rule, but they implemented a large number of business-friendly policies just before they left so that the local capitalists would have a positive impression of them.
One country, two systems - Wikipedia
" One country, two systems" is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China describing the governance…en.wikipedia.org
6. 1904 Ordinance that established HK’s system of racial apartheid, reserving a part of the city where Chinese people could not enter
Peak District Reservation Ordinance 1904 - Wikipedia
The Peak District Reservation Ordinance 1904, originally enacted as the Hill District Reservation Ordinance, is…en.wikipedia.org
7. HK protests are funded and covered by media corporations and money, such as from Jimmy Lai, a billionaire and UK national whose assets are directly threatened by Xi’s new policies on fighting corruption and expanding worker rights
Jimmy Lai - Wikipedia
Lai Chee-ying ( Chinese: 黎智英, born 8 December 1947), also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and activist…en.wikipedia.org
8. Anticonquista podcast explaining why the Hong Kong protests are NOT a decolonial protest but rather the opposite which calls for more western imperialism, neoliberal policies, and suppression of workers’ rights
9. Joshua Wong, a protest leader, refers to British colonizers as Hong Kong’s “old friends” and quotes Churchill, a known fascist and white supremacist.
10. An Italian writer who lives in Hong Kong provides her research and perspective on the issue- she argues for more Chinese government involvement to control the reactionary color revolution, protect the Hong Kong working class, and resist imperialism by the western capitalists
Agents of Chaos. How the U.S. Seeded a Colour Revolution in Hong Kong
If twenty years ago someone had predicted a colour revolution in Hong Kong, most political analysts would have laughed…laura-ruggeri.medium.com
11. What exactly is a Color Revolution? Comrade Luna Oi explains the basics