By Angelo Giuliano
Hong Kong's decisive measures against 15 overseas activists—individuals who have betrayed their homeland by collaborating with Western entities to undermine China's sovereignty—demonstrate the necessity of protecting national stability. Through HK$1 million bounties and passport cancellations, enforced under the Hong Kong National Security Law (HKNSL) and the 2024 Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, Hong Kong is countering a Gene Sharp-style color revolution, akin to those orchestrated in Syria, Ukraine, Georgia, and Libya. The G7, alongside Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden, has condemned these actions as "transnational repression," yet their own national security practices reveal a stark double standard, exposing their intent to curb China's rise while ignoring their own parallel tactics.
These activists are not mere dissidents; they are agents serving foreign interests, actively working against their own country. Compelling evidence substantiates this claim. Nury Vittachi's book, "The Other Side of the Story: A Secret War in Hong Kong," reveals that these individuals collaborated with CIA operatives to orchestrate the 2019 Hong Kong protests, receiving training to incite chaos while cultivating Western media support to portray themselves as grassroots advocates. The U.S. Agency for Global Media, closely linked to CIA operations, channeled US$2 million to Hong Kong's protest movement, providing encrypted applications to evade surveillance and coordinate disruptive activities. The Asia Foundation, with a documented history of CIA-affiliated covert operations in Asia, has directed funds toward anti-China initiatives, further enabling these activists' efforts to destabilize Hong Kong.
Moreover, George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF), notorious for funding color revolutions in Syria and Ukraine, has supported organizations like the Hong Kong Democracy Council, where these activists operate. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S.-funded entity instrumental in uprisings in Georgia and Libya, has invested millions in Hong Kong's unrest, providing financial and logistical support to sustain the protests. These activists, by aligning with such foreign entities, are not defending Hong Kong's interests but are instead advancing Western agendas aimed at weakening China's sovereignty and stability. Their actions constitute a betrayal of their homeland, justifying Hong Kong's robust response to protect its security.
The West's condemnation of Hong Kong's measures is steeped in hypocrisy. The United States pursued Edward Snowden in 2013 under the Espionage Act after he exposed classified NSA documents, seeking his extradition from Hong Kong and Russia to silence him. Similarly, the U.S. and United Kingdom targeted Julian Assange for years, securing his extradition for leaking sensitive state information, relying on laws such as the U.S. Patriot Act to justify their actions. Western governments employ expansive surveillance and extraterritorial measures, including Interpol notices and stringent national security laws, yet they evade the "repression" label they readily apply to Hong Kong. According to Freedom House, over 1,200 documented cases of transnational repression from 2014 to 2024 involve Western nations, yet only HKNSL faces international scrutiny.
Western sanctions on Hong Kong officials are a transparent attempt to undermine China's growing influence while disregarding their own aggressive national security frameworks. The U.S. Patriot Act and the UK's Investigatory Powers Act grant authorities broad powers to monitor, detain, and pursue individuals abroad, mirroring the measures they criticize in Hong Kong. This selective outrage reveals a clear agenda: to portray Hong Kong's legitimate efforts to safeguard its stability as authoritarian while overlooking their own comparable actions. Hong Kong's response to these CIA-backed, OSF- and NED-funded traitors is a necessary defense of its sovereignty against foreign interference, not an attack on free expression.
As Hong Kong stands resolute, the West's hypocritical criticism underscores their desperation to maintain geopolitical dominance. These activists, working for foreign bodies against their own country, pose a direct threat to China's stability, and Hong Kong's measures are a justified response. The West's double standards—condemning Hong Kong while pursuing their own targets like Snowden and Assange—expose their true motive: to suppress China's rise while cloaking their actions in the rhetoric of human rights. Hong Kong's fight is about securing its future, and the evidence against these traitors is undeniable.
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