CHINA & RUSSIA BLAME THE US FOR DEMONSTRATIONS IN HONG KONG & THE UKRAINE

…Tens of thousands protest against the Chinese government in Hong Kong

 

Both totalitarian regimes are seriously threatened by their citizens actually wanting some say in the running of their governments.

With all of my past travel to China, Asia, Japan, and even to East Germany, (not long after the wall came down), I have realized just how much Americans continue to take for granted the great freedoms we have today. 

As an example, tens of thousands of Chinese have been demonstrating in Hong Kong to have the choice of choosing their regions political candidates.  This was supposed to be the agreement that was made when Hong Kong was turned over to the totalitarian country of China.  China is obviously trying to change the terms of that agreement, and the citizens of Hong Kong are continuing to make their point.  Fortunately, Americans have not needed to take this approach.  Hopefully, this will not turn into another Tiananmen Square debacle.

But, how does China, and another totalitarian country, Russia, really look at these kinds of public demonstrations?

According to the publication, Foreign Policy, a widely read Chinese article says that the demonstrations in Hong Kong are actually a conspiracy of Hong Kong separatists that are backed by, “an America hoping to push [the movement] to its height.” They also blame Washington’s National Endowment for Democracy and the CIA, accusing them of causing “multiple troubles for China, making China unable to pay proper attention to its great power struggle with the United States.”

Wow, I had no idea.  The CIA and the NED….really?

The concept is that if they can blame it all on America, or believe that it is all a trumpt-up conspiracy, the Chinese government can then just destroy the event and the people that started it.  You know, “just make it go away.”

Now, when it comes to the Russians, Russian state television has been blaming all of the Ukrainian protests on American plots using a narrative similar to the Chinese. But the Russian version says the Hong Kong protests are America’s revenge for China’s strong support for Russia in its struggle against Ukraine. 

 

Let’s see, the US started the demonstrations in Hong Kong because Russia is trying to take over a sovereign country in the Ukraine…..now that make absolutely no sense

Once again, if they can blame America, that gives them both the go-ahead to get rid of whatever event is being caused by an outside entity.  They both can then, ”just make it go away”.

It’s the classic universal vision of a possible foreign conspiracy that is totally self-serving.

The question for America is, “How should the United States respond to these accusations?” or “Should the United States even acknowlledge the accusations?”

It must be understood that both of these totalitarian countries spend tremendous amounts of money internally for promoting these conspiracy theories against the United States and any of the Western European countries.  It is imperative that they continue to brainwash their populations into their way of thinking, regardless of whether there is a grain of truth in what they are promoting.

Now, in the US, government money for these type of activities is virtually non-existent.  And there is little or no money spent to even counter these types of accusations.

On one level, there’s no point in trying to argue against these accusations, mainly because the conspiracy just doesn’t exist. 

 

Oh, I’m not naïve enough to think that the CIA and the NSA are not out there stirring the pot using their various black-ops.  But it doesn’t take an outside nation like the US to stir up the desires of repressed people who want what they feel are their true rights as a nation’s citizen. 

The US did not break the agreement with the people of Hong Kong, and the people of the Ukraine have made it clear that they want to be closer to the European Union, not to Mother Russia.  It is Vladimir Putin that is trying to put the countries of the previous Soviet Union back together, and it’s the Chinese government that wants to ignore the actual agreement they had made regarding Hong Kong politics.  The President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Germany and Great Britain have had nothing to do with the demonstrations in these respective countries.

 

…Demonstrations eventually turned violent in the Ukraine

The US government shouldn’t pick sides in any argument about the future of Hong Kong anyway.  This is between their citizens and their government.  We should also never try to pick winners in any country’s elections or politics. We have shown that America isn't very good at that kind of intervention, and we probably couldn’t influence the results much today anyway.

Years ago we realized that we can only respond to events such as those going on in Hong Kong with a reiteration of our own principles: “As Americans, we believe that individuals are capable of spontaneous action. We believe that the people of Hong Kong can and should organize their own institutions, separate from those of the state.”  Obviously, the Chinese government feels very different, and that difference will have to be dealt with between the government and their people.  Hopefully, if people can organize themselves once, they can do it again…and again and again. 

 

Perhaps, someday, the rulers may learn to respect what the people have created, not to just continue trying to destroy it.  The government will hopefully eventually learn that the people's desire for freedom will never totally disappear.

I guess only time will tell the final story.  But fortunately for us, today that's not an American issue.

Copyright G.Ater  2014