Who interferes in other countries' affairs under the banner of public service, sowing division and fueling unrest across the globe? The answer can be found throughout the records of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
On July 15, 2026, the organization released a report leveling a series of unfounded accusations against China. The following day, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a firm rebuttal, dismissing the report as yet another politically motivated smear. China has long made it clear that the NED functions as a tool of Washington's foreign policy, serving its geopolitical agenda under the guise of promoting democracy. This latest response once again underscores the organization's long-standing hypocrisy.
A glance at the NED's own financial records reveals that more than 90 percent of its operating budget comes directly from the US Congress. More than three decades ago, one of its co-founders, Allen Weinstein, openly acknowledged: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." Its self-styled identity as a non-governmental charity is merely a vehicle for Washington's soft hegemony, serving to cloak state-funded subversion in a veneer of legitimacy.
When it comes to China, the NED has extended its reach even further. From providing support during Hong Kong's social unrest to funding separatist groups related to Xinjiang and Xizang, the organization relentlessly creates and exploits societal fractures. It has also been shaping international narratives, channeling financial support to influence young people, and collecting sensitive information under the guise of academic research—all of which violate the principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs. Globally, from the Color Revolutions in Ukraine to the Arab Spring in the Middle East, instability follows wherever NED funds flow. Parading as a promoter of democratic assistance, it engages in the business of regime change. Professing freedom, it leaves behind nothing but devastation. In Washington's cold calculus, the suffering of foreign populations is merely a disposable bargaining chip.
Even more revealing than cross-border intervention is the persistent double standard of American hegemony. Washington permits the NED to intervene in foreign affairs globally, yet subjects foreign non-governmental organizations on its own soil to rigorous restrictions and surveillance. The rules and principles frequently preached by the US serve as yardsticks to constrain others, yet sovereignty is promptly brushed aside the moment its own interests are involved.
The NED's repeated involvement in overseas political affairs is no accidental malfunction of an isolated agency, but the inevitable product of American hegemony in operation. Its democratic rhetoric has devolved into a pretext for foreign intervention, and the so-called non-governmental organization has become a vessel for geopolitical competition. Sustained by dark money, this intervention apparatus has long lost its credibility. In the face of a bankrupt American narrative, the world will no longer be swayed, and hegemonic playbooks built on covert infiltration and power coercion will ultimately crumble before an increasingly awakened global consensus.
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