[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Tianamen is a CIA lead color revolution? Way to post some real clear Chinese Communist party propaganda hit pieces and falling for it. Hong Kong people skilled in deceptive rioting tactics? Really?

Among the most central influencers of the demonstrations is a local tycoon named Jimmy Lai. The self-described “head of opposition media,” Lai is widely described as the Rupert Murdoch of Asia. For the masses of protesters, Lai is a transcendent figure. They clamor for photos with him and applaud the oligarch wildly when he walks by their encampments.

Lai established his credentials by pouring millions of dollars into the 2014 Occupy Central protest, which is known popularly as the Umbrella Movement. He has since used his massive fortune to fund local anti-China political movers and shakers while injecting the protests with a virulent brand of Sinophobia through his media empire.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/17/h...-violence/amp/

Perhaps all part of larger US - China issues:

Decoupling the U.S. and Chinese economy would be a significant milestone in the new cold war against China.


That’s because decoupling is at the heart of containment classic.


US China hawks have always pushed the talking point, we don’t have a containment strategy.


That’s because the essence of containment against the Soviet Union as formulated by US diplomat George Kennan in 1946, was that the USSR had chosen the path of autarky—self-sufficiency instead of integration with the economies of the West—in order to sustain its repressive domestic system.


Therefore, Kennan successfully argued that the United States and its allies should quarantine the USSR until it collapsed under its own weight and the stress of confrontation with the United States.


The People’s Republic of China, on the other hand, recognized the limitations of autarky and pursued integration with the world economic system through engagement with the capitalist states, and by membership in the World Trade Organization.


Therefore, People’s Republic of China did not remain a nation of impoverished farmers, albeit a billion farmers with nuclear weapons, globally isolated and vulnerable to U.S. containment, foreign and domestic subversion, and eventual overthrow.


Instead, we got a Communist government on the mainland that accounts for 40% of the world economy and has enough financial, social, and police state juice to stay on top of the heap domestically and compete with the United States for influence internationally!

https://chinamatters.blogspot.com/20...TAGYQ_uYM4&m=1