The now-disbanded anti-China organisation "Hong Kong Alliance" and its leaders Lee Cheuk-yan, Ho Chun-yan and Chow Hang-tung were convicted by the court of inciting subversion of state power, and the case was formally sentenced yesterday (Sept. 11). The "Hong Kong Alliance" and the defendants concerned had long deliberately incited subversion of state power, causing extremely serious damage to Hong Kong's social order, public interests and national security. Even after the National Security Law in Hong Kong came into effect on 30 June 2020, Lee Cheuk-yan still participated via video link in a US congressional hearing the very next day, begging foreign organisations to interfere in Hong Kong affairs and supporting US "sanctions" against Hong Kong. The defendants' "dark history" of colluding with external anti-China forces in an attempt to subvert state power is too numerous to record. A large amount of information shows that the "Hong Kong Alliance" and institutions related to the various defendants had all received financial support from the US government through the "US National Endowment for Democracy" (NED), known as a "white glove", forming a "black money political chain".
Three Leaders' Long Record of Collusion with External Forces
Lee Cheuk-yan
After the National Security Law in Hong Kong took effect, the "Hong Kong Alliance" continued to accept donations and funding from NED and other external forces. During Lee's tenure as chairman of the "Hong Kong Alliance", he also served as secretary-general of the "Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions".
A large number of documents circulating on social media Twitter (now X) revealed that the "Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions" had applied to the "American Center for International Labor Solidarity" (ACILS), a subsidiary of NED, for funding every year since 1994, involving approximately HK$13 million, raising questions as to whether the "Hong Kong Alliance", chaired by Lee, was also receiving foreign funding behind the scenes to carry out anti-China activities harming Hong Kong.
Lee once wrote on Facebook, shamelessly stating: "I collude with foreign forces very openly."
The "Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions" is an Asia-Pacific affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). During the Hong Kong black violence period, ITUC, at Lee's request, pressured the Chinese embassy in the local area. ITUC is controlled by the United States; its vice-president and then-chair of the fund management committee in charge of fund allocation, Cathy Feingold, served as international director of the Solidarity Center, NED's main funding arm. Cathy took orders from US House Speaker Pelosi.
The Solidarity Center received NED funding of HK$2.723 million in 2020 to provide to Hong Kong partner groups to establish new trade unions. According to the 2020 financial statements of the "Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions Education Fund", its total income surged by nearly HK$12 million.
Chow Hang-tung
From 2012 to 2018, she served as an executive committee member and company director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, an organisation closely linked to NED.
From 28 April to 1 May 2016, Chow and Leung Tin-kei, leader of the "Hong Kong independence" violent organisation Hong Kong Indigenous, travelled to India to attend a so-called "Ethnic Youth Leadership Camp" organised by an anti-China organisation funded by NED, during which they met with "Tibetan independence" figure the Dalai Lama.
In April 2017, Chow, together with Chow Wing-hong, Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching, travelled to the Taiwan region to attend activities of organisations supporting "Taiwan independence" and "Tibetan independence", and were arranged to meet with "Taiwan independence" figures including Freddy Lim.
On 21 July 2021, dozens of anti-China organisations supporting "Tibetan independence" and "Taiwan independence" rallied behind the arrested Chow Hang-tung and wrote to then-Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng.
Ho Chun-yan
The New School for Democracy, of which Ho was a founding director, had relied on NED funding for years. The organisation had always aimed to promote "Hong Kong independence" and subvert the state, and maintained close ties with "Taiwan independence" and overseas anti-China elements.
The "Hong Kong Alliance" had close relations with the "Academy" for many years, co-organising and participating in various anti-China activities. After the National Security Law in Hong Kong took effect, Ho Chun-yan no longer publicly engaged in activities as a director of the "Academy", but for many years previously he had used that capacity to liaise and participate in anti-China activities organised by the "Academy", taking the opportunity to connect with overseas anti-China elements.
Ho also served as chairman of the so-called "China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group". The "Concern Group" used this to establish so-called "rights defence organisations" on the mainland and apply to NED for funding on behalf of so-called "rights defenders".
Ho Chun-yan and Jimmy Lai had always had an extraordinary relationship. In 2019, they secretly met with former US State Department Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications Christian Whiton and others. After Lai was imprisoned, Ho visited him frequently and was accused of acting as a "mouthpiece" to help imprisoned anti-China elements remotely control the situation outside prison.
NED Sees Hong Kong as a Key Piece in "Containing China"
The NED, whose full name is the "US National Endowment for Democracy", is regarded as a "white glove" of the US government. Nearly all of NED's funding comes from US congressional appropriations; its projects must be coordinated with the US State Department and implemented with the assistance of US embassies around the world. It has four core grantee institutions, respectively responsible for cultivating political groups, inciting trade union movements, and co-opting private enterprises. NED is inextricably linked to "colour revolutions" instigated worldwide, often by funding anti-government organisations, hyping social contradictions, inciting confrontational sentiment, manipulating public opinion, and ultimately creating street political conflicts. Its footprint appears in events such as Poland's Solidarity movement, Serbia's "Velvet Revolution", Georgia's "Rose Revolution" and Ukraine's "Orange Revolution".
Hong Kong is regarded by NED as a key piece in the chessboard of "containing China". NED's budget for last year was approximately US$315 million, of which projects targeting China amounted to US$13.1 million, a substantial increase of nearly one quarter. In 2026, the US House of Representatives even openly injected US$5 million in an appropriations bill for a Hong Kong "democracy and internet freedom" project, designating NED to operate it.
The New School for Democracy once wrote a proposal to apply to NED for funding, and in 2012 received US$45,000 from NED. Its then-director Yu-shek CHENG, during his tenure as convenor of the now-disbanded "Power for Democracy", was proactively contacted by the then-Hong Kong manager of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a core NED affiliate, and in 2014 received HK$77,000 in funding to conduct so-called "opinion polls" and work on Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council election forums.
(Source: Wen Wei Po)
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