New @Moderate_Rebels episode on Hong Kong:
With @CarlZha, we discuss the real colonial history of Hong Kong, the bigoted anti-China right-wing nativism fueling the protests, the economic conditions, and the local oligarchs' leading role in the chaos
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@Moderate_Rebels @CarlZha In our interview @CarlZha talks about the extreme bigotry against mainland Chinese in the Hong Kong protests, especially among its US-backed nativist leaders and from Trump-allied oligarchs who publish ads comparing them to locusts:
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@Moderate_Rebels @CarlZha Here is Hong Kong media oligarch Jimmy Lai (known as "the Rupert Murdoch of Asia") — who funds and strongly supports the anti-China protests in Hong Kong — meeting with neocons John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Mike Pence in DC this July
@Moderate_Rebels @CarlZha CNN did a blatant propaganda puff piece for Hong Kong's anti-Chinese right-wing oligarch Jimmy Lai ("the Rupert Murdoch of Asia")
Lai admits there is a new "cold war" and boasts: "We in Hong Kong are fighting for the shared values of the US against China"
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@Moderate_Rebels @CarlZha CNN: That right-wing media oligarch Jimmy Lai "has ties with the US is undeniable.
"Last month, he flew to Washington to discuss with US VP Mike Pence, Sec of State Mike Pompeo and Nat Sec Adviser John Bolton how fundamental Hong Kong's freedom is to the US' standoff with China"
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