HONG KONG: Evidence is beginning to emerge that the CCP has infiltrated some ‘nativist’ networks. Last December, a group of ‘nativists’ protesters ran into the PLA (Chinese military) garrison in Admiralty waving a British colonial-era flag and calling for the PLA to “get out of Hong Kong!” One member of this group has subsequently been unmasked as a CCP member and expelled. While to some it might seem contradictory for Beijing to be goading and manipulating pro-independence groups, it is in fact famous for deploying such Machiavellian methods. While the degree of CCP penetration of such groups is not clear, there is no doubt that Beijing exploits the flag-waving anti-mainlander antics of the ‘nativists’ – giving them massive media attention inside China – to portray the democracy movement as ‘anti-China’ and to justify greater political repression. READ MORE: chinaworker.info/en/2014/10/04/8307/
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 03:35:41 +0000
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