Hong Kong vs the neo-imperialists
When news broke last Friday that some protesters in Hong Kong were setting up a provisional government to declare their own independence, a majority of the protesters were quick to shoot back that this announcement had been engineered by troublemakers to create undue tension between them and the Chinese government. Their quick response showed great levelheadedness.
These "level-headed" protesters may not be as reckless as what some foreign media had been seeking to suggest over these past weeks. It is obvious that there are some troublemakers among them whose agenda is solely to fan the protest into a frenzy to force China into the hands of foreign powers. It may be critical for China and Hong Kong that they start differentiating the rotten apples and their sinister agenda from the rest of the "level-headed" protesters.
The capacity to stage such a massive protest over so many weeks is simply not within the reasonable scope of activists like Joshua Wong. While Taiwan is a clear beneficiary of the protest, it alone does not have the capability or audacity to engage China in such a direct confrontation. There may be individuals from Taiwan, as there are individuals from within Hong Kong, but these are easy for the Chinese to identify and manage.
The US and the British clearly have a role in the protest but their narrative of defending Hong Kong's democracy and its people is looking less credible with each passing day. Britain, which was the former colonial master of Hong Kong, had 155 years of opportunities before 1997 to do so.
Atrocities committed by neo-imperialists The destructive rise of neo-imperialists has been a major concern of many world leaders. Driven by the unrestrained pursuit of money and power, their only interest is to turn the world into their playground where they can lord it over everyone effortlessly.
The devastation of many economies in the Middle East as a result of "justified" military interventions by the US and its allies over the past 20 years shows the US is only interested in the petrodollar. The same is true in other regions where the US and its allies have sought to intervene in the name of democracy.
From Venezuela to Libya and the rest of Africa and South America, economies are falling like pins each time the neo-imperialists roll off their bowling balls. Their talks of humanitarianism or the need of rebalancing power against the rise of China or terrorism are just excuses that they use to blind everyone, including themselves.
This is the new evil, where democracy becomes subservient to the greed of capitalism.
When the culmination of their devastations is so much greater than the combined devastations of both World Wars and terrorism, it is timely to be questioning the morale of their agenda.
These democracy champions themselves have been using violent responses to curb their own public protests and also failed to intervene where democracy and humanitarianism were severely breached just because there was no money to be made or because the perpetrators of these atrocities were their allies. Confrontations against neo-imperialism In this aspect, China has scored a major coup by its restraint with the Hong Kong protesters. Isn't it ironic that democracy champions are actually less democratic and humane than a communist country?
Unlike Russia, Iran or North Korea, the China is in a formidable position to challenge and expose the ambiguities of the neo-imperialists within the US administration. Together with some European countries, they are aware that if neo-imperialism is to be allowed to propagate unabated, the future will definitely be very bleak for everyone. While the ideologies of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea may be contentious, their confrontations against the destructive ideology of the neo-imperialists are not.