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Journalist, analyst, political economist || Videos: https://t.co/nttyf01rBw || Editor of @GeopoliticaEcon || Articles: https://t.co/BzH3YrvHni

Aug 25, 2019, 5 tweets

At @Moderate_Rebels, we spoke with China expert @CarlZha about Hong Kong and the anti-Chinese right-wing nativism fueling the violent protests.

HK media oligarchs publish ads comparing mainlanders to locusts, and "protesters" attack mainlander journalists

Here is video of the "peaceful" anti-China "protesters" in Hong Kong that the corporate media (and US/UK govs) love so much

These are more Western-backed "moderate rebels," who violently attack the state while the corporate media does propaganda for them

This video alone is proof that the Hong Kong gov is not the "authoritarian regime" that Western govs and corporate media claim it is, and also that China does maintain its autonomy.

In the US police state, cops would immediately SHOOT all the "protesters"

The US has essentially declared a new cold war on China, and the violence in Hong Kong is so obviously a proxy conflict to weaken, destabilize, and even balkanize China.

Once again, the liberals praising the obviously right-wing, violent "protests" are just helping Trump.

Mouthpiece of billionaires The Economist is saying the quiet part loud, publishing secessionist propaganda on Hong Kong and saying openly that the "protests" have "become the most serious challenge to the Communist Party's authority since Tiananmen Square"

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