SHORTLY AFTER THE HORRIFIC seven-tower fire in Hong Kong, a person who gave herself the name “Hongkonger” appeared on social media showing incredible disrespect to the victims of the city’s recent tower block fire by printing photographs of burned corpses – while at the same time, she blamed the whole thing on the Chinese government in Beijing.
But when we click on her location, we find she is posting from the United States using a US app. (See video below.)
What’s going on?
There were more things for Hong Kong people worry about. Western mainstream media like Sky News and the Guardian were reporting that the government is oppressing Hong Kong people and arresting individuals who are simply asking for accountability.
What was really happening there?
A third issue: Looking at datelines, we note that even while the fire was burning in the towers, certain journalists were already pushing out deeply politicized reports about the fire. Below, we will name those reporters.
[Scroll down to read more of this written report, or watch our video on the same topic.]
Here’s the real story.
Hong Kong is on guard, as the first signs of a new hybrid warfare attack are emerging, exploiting the fire to push the fake narrative that “China ruined Hong Kong”. In fact, a failed color revolution harmed Hong Kong, and Beijing’s (perhaps surprising) patience enabled the city to retain its “one country, two systems” policy in the face of direct attempts by the west to destroy it.
Immediately after the fire, knowledgeable observers raised concerns that hostile forces were making opening moves as the city reeled from a deadly fire that killed about 160 people in a huge fire that spanned seven tower blocks in Tai Po: the Wong Fuk Court tragedy.
MATCHING PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS
The community on the south coast of China is seeing a number of low-profile steps that match previous color revolution attempts in Hong Kong and elsewhere. These have always been launched following major news events that can be exploited to polarize society.
The technique is well-known: foreign forces use co-opted China-hostile media to politicize events –and at the same time, they use underground money to foster anger against the government. The hostility is then escalated into protest movements and actual street battles. In multiple cases around the world, the final result has regime change with NED supporters or employees taking leadership roles.
The west always responds to such accusations by pressing the argument that the social issues that people are complaining about are real. But this is a clever way of missing the point. The CIA and other agencies ALWAYS identify real social issues on which to focus. That’s the heart of their strategy.
This week, just as we’ve seen in the past, the international media is quoting US-funded sources while deliberately hiding their funding from the public.
But don’t take my word for it. Here are three elements for you to consider.
Number one: Compare and contrast
There were a number of disasters in Asia at roughly the same time. At least 170+ dead in Thailand, 450+ dead in Sri Lanka, more than 600 dead in Indonesia, and about 160 dead in Hong Kong.
Anyone who follows the news can immediately see that all these events are being reported straight by the international media – all of them – except one. The Hong Kong reports are being thoroughly politicized. None of the others are.
If you’re one of many people who have noticed that, you’re not imaging it. A comprehensive, data-driven study by researchers in London and Hong Kong showed conclusively that western mainstream over-politicize all events related to Hong Kong and mainland China. In other words, journalists morph into anti-China propagandists every time they cover this region. I can provide a link if you want the original document.
Number two: Quoting US-funded sources
US-funded China-haters are coming out of the woodwork – and journalists are hiding their funding. For example, in her coverage of the fire, the Guardian reporter Amy Hawkins mainly quotes the notorious Michael Mo. He was one of a group of people who were always labelled “pro-democracy activists” by western journalists – but who were seen by Hong Kong people as traitors who were literally paid by the United States for their constant work to demonize China.
Mo became a laughingstock in Hong Kong earlier this year, when he admitted on a Taiwan TV channel that the Hong Kong overseas “pro-democracy” group found it hard to continue their work because the United States had stopped paying them. (The clip is included in the video attached to this post.)
In other words, Hong Kong people got it right. And the western media had got it wrong.
But of course, Reuters, the Guardian, the BBC, and the others, continue to cover up that fact – and instead continue to quote US-paid agents as if they represented Hong Kong people. They don’t. They represent the people who pay them.
Number three: Cash is the key
Now you notice that Mo indicated that the US had stopped funding the anti-China Hong Kong diaspora. But it has not been reported that the US has restarted that operation.
If we go through the relevant NED papers, we find there’s a sum of US$400,000 to give to US-allied people among the Hong Kong overseas community. Nice bit of pocket money for trolls to create problems.
Now all this cash is IN ADDITION to Hong Kong-focused funding by the CIA, US military intelligence, the department of Homeland Security, and at least two UK groups.
So, in short, there’s an astonishingly massive heap of money waiting for people who want to escalate social issues in Hong Kong.
HYBRID WARFARE IN HONG KONG
Let me tell you how the US hybrid warfare operation works in Hong Kong. I have now watched this operation multiple times.
[Note: Sources and documents are shown in the video version of this report.]
First, US and UK agents train sleeper agents to stand by, and then they continuously monitor issues in the city to identify which ones are big enough to be listed “potential flashpoints”.
In the past, they listed Article 23, Occupy Hong Kong, the Fishball stall protests, and the extradition amendment as flashpoints.
Now, at this time, we can say for sure that hybrid warfare step one, clearly, has been taken – the fire in Tai Po has definitely been listed as a potential new flashpoint.
EXPLOITING THE ANGER
Hybrid warfare Step two is to exploit the anger, escalating it to create social unrest. That’s what Hong Kong security people are looking out for—and that’s what they are finding. So, for example, a mysterious young man with a criminal record creates a list of numbered demands – and yes, it will be noticed.
Note also that the man calls for accountability as if nothing had been done about finding out who should be blamed for causing the fire. Yet it’s clear that he called for accountability AFTER the people who managed the renovation had been arrested, after 250 other buildings had been inspected, after labs in Hong Kong and Mainland China were analysing the bamboo and the sheet netting and the Styrofoam barriers, after the building department and the housing department were reviewing their policies. Clearly his call for accountability, while all this is taking place, makes little sense.
CREATING MASS ENGAGEMENT
Hybrid warfare Step three is to create mass engagement and open a channel for funding. This is normally done through what are sometimes known as “solidarity websites”, so “change .org” or “gofundme” and so on.
Now they don’t sound dangerous, do they? They are. Very dangerous. United Nations specialists have been warning the world for years that people have been using these websites to transfer money to buy weapons and explosives for acts of terrorism. That’s because the money received for the purchase of guns and bombs is real, but it’s difficult for the victims to trace the donors.
KILLING LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE
And that’s exactly what happened in Hong Kong. A group of Hong Kong protesters called the Dragon Slayers Brigade was sent a large sum of money from an unknown source through a crowdfunding site and used it to buy explosives which they intended to set off in Wan Chai, killing large numbers of people.
They also got firearms – and I am not talking about pistols – they had an AK47, which is an automatic assault rifle.
So Hong Kong people, like many other countries, including Europe as a whole, is cracking down on crowdfunding. That’s why Hong Kong – and other places – look suspiciously at troublemakers using crowd solidarity websites.
Does that make sense now?
CO-OPTING THE MEDIA
Step four is to co-opt the media. Their part of the hustle is to tell the world that there are no foreign forces doing anything in Hong Kong, and paint an image of a community that wants desperately to be like the glorious paradise of the western world but which is being brutally repressed by mainland China. It’s rubbish but it’s the ideology of the west.
Reuters, rather shockingly, horribly politicized the issue on Thursday, as the towers will still burning – that’s Greg Torode and Antoni Slodkowski. On behalf of the journalism profession, I would like to apologize to the people of Hong Kong for the behavior of these people in my profession. What they did was heartless. I’m so sorry.
MONEY AVAILABLE TO HURT HONG KONG
One last observation. Now most people know that the US has passed various bills to finance negative news of China — $300 million to “counter China”, $500 million to denounce the Belt and Road Initiative, $325 million a year on China-related “malign influence” campaigns and so on.
And of course, people who print bad things about China get the lion’s share of the US$2.8 billion set aside for what they call “democracy assistance programs” which exist to put pro-Washington people in power everywhere.
And all that is on top of the CIA’s anti-China billion dollar budget and military intelligence’s billion dollar anti-China budget.
You know all that – but many people don’t know that there are additional, separate budgets to stir up trouble in Hong Kong.
For instance, I saw a US one in December 2023 that hived off HK$23 million to be sent here to create trouble. The average young person in this city earns HK$19,000 a month, so HK$23 million buys you a LOT of young people willing to make trouble.
Also, this year, there was a general payment of US$800,000 “to respond to the intensifying repression within the People’s Republic of China” – and we don’t know who got that either.
What can ordinary people do? Well, we can stand up for the truth. We can stand up for Hong Kong. We can stand up for a community that is being unfairly used by the west as a political tool against Beijing.
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