The truth is, American activists have a lot to learn from activists in Hong Kong.
I'm not saying that the NED, CIA, USAID and other such organizations should not be exposed for their efforts to infiltrate movements, and to try to sow chaos in Hong Kong and around the globe. But those who exaggerate the impact of such agencies, as some writers are doing in this instance, pose a threat to the people of Hong Kong. Beijing wants to claim that all protests in Hong Kong are the work of subversives and US imperialism, and those in the US who are saying that same thing are makng China's task easier.
What we on the left who oppose US empire should be doing is not undermining the indigenous activists in Hong Kong in their long and continuing struggle to defend and expand their liberty and autonomy, but rather working to insist that the US government and its secretive agencies of imperialism butt out of Hong Kong.
DAVE LINDORFF was a correspondent for Business Week in the magazine's Hong Kong bureau for five years, from 1992-1997. He has a degree in Chinese language from Wesleyan University, and lived for a year in Shanghai. A member of ThisCantBeHappening, his work, and that of colleagues JOHN GRANT, GARY LINDORFF, ALFREDO LOPEZ, LORI SPENCER, LINN WASHINGTON, JR. and the late CHARLES M. YOUNG, can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
(Article changed on October 4, 2014 at 21:54)
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
4
4
3
